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Anushree Joshi & Saman Waheed, Authors of FM 12.1 (2021) Article “Romanticist Philosophy in Hindi Cinema: A Comparative Study of Keats, Shelley, and October”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Anushree Joshi & Saman Waheed: Our article explores the concerns of human mortality in a rapidly disconnecting society, owing to modern capitalism in Indian metropolitans, … Continue reading
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The Black Dahlia: A Misunderstood Ode to Film Noir. Reviewed by Yaakov “Jacob” Smith
When director Brian De Palma is brought up in film discussions, much is made of his work prior to 2000, and anything past that year is completely ignored, if not disparaged. Indeed, many seem to believe that De Palma lost … Continue reading
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Peter Horan, Author of FM 12.1 (2021) Article “From Lotte Reiniger to Nguyễn Trinh Thi: Examining the Evolution of Non-Western Representation in Artists’ Film and Video”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Peter Horan: My article highlights how artists’ film and video have evolved in the past century when it comes to the representation of non-Western communities … Continue reading
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Cameron Detig, Author of FM 12.1 (2021) Article “Slow Motion in the Age of Intensified Continuity”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Cameron Detig: My article, “Slow Motion in the Age of Intensified Continuity,” is about the ways in which slow motion has been implemented in film, … Continue reading
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The Grand Budapest Hotel Mise-en-Scene Scrapbook. By Carrie Goodison
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) follows a writer who is interested in the infamous hotel known as the Grand Budapest Hotel, which is no longer in its prime, and has since become run-down. The writer meets with the current owner … Continue reading
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Abby Walkur, Author of FM 12.1 (2021) Article “Three Cheers for the Essay Film: How Chris Marker’s Vive la baleine Epitomizes Timothy Corrigan’s Model”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Abby Walkur: My article—“Three Cheers for the Essay Film”—utilizes esteemed scholar Timothy Corrigan’s essay film model to explain how famous French essayist Chris Marker’s Vive … Continue reading
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Open Call for Papers 14.1
Film Matters is pleased to announce our open call for papers from current undergraduates, authors who have been invited to revise and resubmit previous submissions (including authors who did not make it past our prescreening for a previous call), and recently … Continue reading
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Chuyi Zhang, Author of FM 12.1 (2021) Article “Deconstructing the Other’s Other: Analyzing the Chinese Female Image in the Film Saving Face”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Chuyi Zhang: My article mainly focuses on the film Saving Face created in 2004 by Chinese American director Alice Wu, which carries a lot of … Continue reading
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The Departed in Three Symbols. A Motif Analysis by Joey McDevitt
Dialogue is used to express what a character is thinking; however, it is a film’s visual aesthetic that subconsciously talks to the audience. In 2006, Martin Scorsese directed the film The Departed, which would win him his first Academy Award … Continue reading
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The 2021 Film Matters Masoud Yazdani Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Film Scholarship Winner
Film Matters is pleased to announce the winner of the seventh annual Masoud Yazdani Award: Lydia Spencer-Elliott for her FM 11.1 (2020) article, “Choreography to Choreocinema: The Symbiotic Relationship Between Surrealism and Dance.” Lydia recently graduated from the University of … Continue reading
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