Film Matters is pleased to announce officially the release of the final 2021 issue, FM 12.3, edited by the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW) and featuring a dossier guest edited by Fabrizio Cilento (Messiah University), Otilia Baraboi (University of Washington, Seattle), and Ileana Marin (University of Washington, Seattle).
FM 12.3 includes the following peer-reviewed feature articles:
- Cult Victim Turned Cult Star: The Hyperreal Image of Sharon Tate by Reid Anderson
- Into the Spider-Verse and a New Age of Comic Realism by Sophie Barbour
- Examining the Function of Pretrauma Cinema, WALL-E and the Warning for Our Future by Georgina Beeby
- Gregg Araki and Queer Asian American Empowerment in the Teenage Apocalypse Trilogy by Amanda Coates
- An Attitude Means a Style. A Style Means an Attitude: The Free Cinema Movement in 1950s Britain by Harriet Crisp
- Makavejev’s Neo-Documentarism by Leo Nelki Göpfert
- Orientalist Stereotypes and Transnational Feminisms in Disney’s 1998 and 2020 Mulan by Emily Nighman
- Transnational Filmmaking: The Intersubjective Gaze in Desierto by Matthew Scipione
- Cracks in the Ornament: Spectatorial Relationships and Labors of Looking in Gold Diggers of 1933 by Leif Tystad
- White Saviors Get Gold Trophies: Colorblind Racism and Film Award Culture by Hannah Vliet
These “Romanian New Wave at 20” dossier featurettes:
- Otto the Barbarian: Patriarchy, Feminism, and Romanian New Wave Cinema by Randall Rodriguez
- Authority Figures in Post-Revolutionary Society: Examining Romanian Attitudes Toward the Police in Pororoca and Police, Adjective by Mason Leaver
These book reviews:
- Aesthetic Categories of Transdisciplinarity in Debashree Mukherjee’s Bombay Hustle, Debashree Mukherjee (2020) by Mridula Sharma
- Children’s Books on the Big Screen, Meghann Meeusen (2020) by Raena Kerr
- Making Worlds: Affect and Collectivity in Contemporary European Cinema, Claudia Breger (2020) by Elena Pitsilidou
- It Follows, Joshua Grimm (2018) by Tia M. Adkins
- Harrison Ford: Masculinity and Stardom in Hollywood, Virginia Luzón-Aguado (2020) by Grace Smith
- Scholarship as Love’s Work: Catherine Wheatley’s Stanley Cavell and Film by Abigail Tulenko
These film reviews:
- Yema: Close Your Eyes and Listen by E. Rafael Jacobs-Perez
- In My Blood It Runs (2019) by Digby Houghton
- Mudbound (2017) by A. G. Lawler
- 20th Century Women (2016) by Carleigh Laxton
- 1917 (2019) by Kayleigh Penny
- T2 Trainspotting (2017) by Logan Wells
And these DVD/Blu-ray reviews:
- Mandabi (1968) by Hollie Middleton
- Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Two Takes (1968, 2005) by Vanessa Zarm
For more information about this issue, please visit:
https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/fm/2021/00000012/00000003
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