Film Matters is pleased to report that FM 10.3 (our final issue of 2019) is now officially out electronically via Ingenta and EBSCO. (Due to the COVID-19 situation, print copies will follow once the Intellect offices are back open.)
In this issue, you will find our remembrance of John Pruitt:
As well as the following peer-reviewed feature articles:
- Paris Is Burning: Intersectionality in 90s Queer Cinema by Tara Brew
- Valerie the Vampire Slayer: Abjection, the Czech New Wave, and Feminist Interventions by Alexandra Coburn
- History of Terror: The Non-Hammer Horror Period Piece and British National Identity by Joe Day
- Purple Reign: The Contradictory Use of the Royal Color Purple in Disneys Animated Villains by Suzi Fera
- I Ain’t Afraid of No Remake: Exploration of the Financial, Marketing, and Societal Failure of Ghostbusters: Answer the Call by Jason Husak
- Cyborg Feminism: Ambiguity and Hybridity of the Female Cyborg in Metropolis by Madi Margolis
- Threshold Figures: The Babysitter in American Film by Sarah Matthews
- Utter the flood of feeling: Melodrama and Musical Score in Douglas Sirks Written on the Wind (1956) by Alyson E. Picard
- Exploring the Relationship of the Geography and People Through Composition in the Films of Abbas Kiarostami by Parul Tiwari
- Critical Anti-Realism in Chinese Postsocialist Films Chicken Poets (Meng Jinghui, 2002) and Asia One (Cao Fei, 2018) by Justine Xi
The “Based on Actual Events” Dossier, edited by Fabrizio Cilento and students at Messiah College:
- Based on Actual Events Introduction by Fabrizio Cilento
- Cultural Hybridity and Biopics on Artists of Mexican Heritage: La Bamba, Selena, and Frida by Nathan Simms
- Rise: Ini Kalilah: The Challenges of Defining a Multicultural Malaysian Identity by Kai Y. Leong
- The Philosophy of Documentary and Michael Moores Bowling for Columbine by Hannah Holway
- Hawking2: A Retrospective on Adaptation by Katharine R. Chamberlain
- The Indonesian Massacre as Perceived by the Lens: The Year of Living Dangerously, Pengkhianatan G30S/PKI, 40 Years of Silence: An Indonesian Tragedy, The Act of Killing, and The Look of Silence by Jemma Detwiler
- Review: Sisters (1972) by Bill Friedell
- Review: New Nonfiction Film: Art, Poetics, and Documentary Theory, Dara Waldron (2018) by Keara Kobzowicz
- Review: No Other Way to Tell It: Docudrama on Film and Television, Derek Paget (2011) by Kai Y. Leong
- Review: Docudrama Performs the Past: Arenas of Argument in Films Based on True Stories, Steven N. Lipkin (2011) by Nathan Simms
- Review: Why Docudrama?: Fact-Fiction on Film and TV, Alan Rosenthal (1999) by Michelle Winegardner
The “Catastrophe!” Dossier, edited by Tom Ue and students at Dalhousie University:
- Digesting the Indigestible: Narrative, Guilt, and Responsibility in Yann Martels and Andrew Cividinos We Ate the Children Last by Tom Ue
- A Crime of Calligraphy: The Importance of the Pen in Done In by James Munday
- Class Norms: The Expectation of Social Roles in Family Guy by Alex Affonso
- The OASIS Manifesto by Jonathan Hage
- The Mechanization of Desire in Fritz Langs Metropolis by Neil MacDonald
- Blade Runner and Altered Carbon: Aesthetic and Setting in Cyberpunk by Benjamin West
- The Duality of Dystopian and Utopian Perspectives in Literature and Film by Jason Botham
It’s another big issue! And one that we are proud of. For more details about this issue, please visit: https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/fm/2019/00000010/00000003
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