FM 13.2 (2022) Is Here!

FM 13.2, jointly edited by Chapman University and the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW), is officially out. Ably introduced by Sophia Bain, “Generation Anxiety: Preface,” FM 13.2 includes the following feature articles, on the theme of “Generation Anxiety,” peer reviewed by Chapman:

• “Superego, Desire, and Living for Others in Asako I & II” by William Yonts
• “Afraid to Live, Afraid to Die: Sources of Anxiety in She Dies Tomorrow” by Cole Clark
• “The Mimic, the Abstract, and the Familiar in John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982)” by Emma Koss
• “Performative Revolution in Popular Media and Accelerationist Narratives in Resident Evil” by Mason Dickerson

And these features peer reviewed by UNCW:

• “Brechtian Orality in The Journals of Knud Rasmussen“ by Saveria Amicucci
• “Two Worlds Combined: How Cleverman (2016-2017) Reimagines Indigenous Storytelling” by Jade Courchesne
• “Empathizing with James Baldwin in I Am Not Your Negro” by Emily Heiser
• “How Ordinary People Breaks the Stigma of Manila’s Street Children” by Vanessa Zarm

These Chapman featurettes:

• “Constructing Characters: An Interview with Willem Dafoe” by Ethan Binotto
• “A Crushing Weight: Examining Disney’s Family Dynamics in Encanto” by Katie Potter

This UNCW featurette:

• “Ghosts of Past/Graves of Future” by Ben Dowd

The following book reviews:

• “On the Wings of Hypothesis: Collected Writings on Soviet Cinema, Annette Michelson (2020)” by Matthew Scipione
• “The Origins of the Film Star System: Persona, Publicity and Economics in Early Cinema, Andrew Shail (2019)” By Miranda Sprouse
• “Herstories on Screen: Feminist Subversions of Frontier Myths, Kathleen Cummins (2020)” by Ashlynn Chand
• “Second Time Around: From Art House to DVD, D. A. Miller (2021)” by Nathan Trieste

A healthy dose of film reviews:

• “A Service of Uncertainty” by Sophia Bain
• “The Experiential Horror of Old” by Ethan Binotto
• “Booksmart (2019)” by May Miller Worthen

And, finally, these DVD/Blu-ray reviews:

• “Mulholland Dr.: Lost in the Senses” by Cole Clark
• “The Princess Bride in Four Frames” by Kylie Baker, Michael Beane and Georgia Boggs
• “Do the Right Thing in Seventeen Frames” by Connor David Holland, Peyton Holland, Kayleigh Penny, Dan Verley and Logan Wells

For more information about this issue, please visit: 

https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/fm/13/2

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Here is wishing you a happy October!