FM 4.3 Is Out!

Film Matters is excited to announce the release of FM 4.3 (2013) — on the heels of FM 4.2 — which features an engaging guest-edited dossier on the New Directors/New Films festival by Kristi McKim and her students at Hendrix College.  The dossier includes film reviews by:

  • Vincent Gammill
  • Catelyn Gibbs
  • Rane Peerson
  • William Repass
  • Adelia Shiffraw
  • Emily Smith
  • Lance St. Laurent 

FM 4.3 also includes the following peer-reviewed feature articles:

  • Flipping Your Fins Can Get You Far: How the Walt Disney Company Has Ensured the Longevity of The Little Mermaid Through Franchise Management by Kayleigh Bonner
  • The Surrealist Aesthetic: From Breton to Almodóvar by Diana M. Fraser
  • The Ideological Effects of Intensified Continuity by Zachary Klaver
  • The “Unfilmable” Lightness of Being?: Essayistic Devices in Kaufman’s Adaptation of The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Brandon Konecny
  • I’ve Got Nothing: The Poorly Executed Ideas of a Rich Industry by Guy Madjar
  • The Impossibility of Memory: Anamnesis and Reflexive Documentary by Erin Nunoda
  • Intertitle Humor and the Representation of Heterosexual Marriage in Why Change Your Wife? by Erica Tortolani 

The latest “Mapping Contemporary Cinema” column:

  • Hurricane Katrina, Race and Gender in The Princess and the Frog
    by Sophie Engel 

These featurettes:

  • Local Liaison: Interview with Wilmington Regional Film Commission Director, Johnny Griffin by Ivy Burridge
  • Find the Animals: An Interview with Scott Myers of Go into the Story by Laura Casteel
  • A Disc-Less Future: The Rise and Fall of Physical Media by Matthew D. C. Stamm

Book reviews by:   Steven T. Gamble and  Jaime Carlos Menjivar

As well as a “Film Bytes” column on Holy Motors (Carax, 2012).

For more information about this new issue, please visit: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=2720/

And think about becoming a Film Matters author yourself — submit a paper to CFP 6.2 today!:  https://www.filmmattersmagazine.com/2014/04/28/cfp-6-2-2015-national-cinema-auteurism-and-genre/

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