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Red Balloon Motif Analysis. By Logan Wells
The red balloon has found its way into films of different styles, genres, and eras. It is an image that evokes feelings of hope, imagination, and childlike wonder. Innocent and free from concern, it has been notably present ever since … Continue reading
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The Rock (1996). Reviewed by Yaakov “Jacob” Smith
It would be an understatement to call Michael Bay a punching bag for film critics around the world. Mention of his name has become code, even among the casual moviegoing public, for “bad movie.” This reputation, however, is unfounded. In … Continue reading
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ALERT: Call for Video Essays
To all our video essay authors submitting to our recent call for video essays that closed on August 15, 2021: A major miscommunication — compounded by the stress of the COVID-19 pandemic — has led to a misprint in the … Continue reading
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Mise-en-Scene Scrapbook: But I’m a Cheerleader. By Tessa Throneburg
But I’m a Cheerleader (1999) is a satirical rom-com directed by Jamie Babbit and starring Natasha Lyonne as the film’s protagonist Megan, a closeted cheerleader. Megan is sent to a conversion therapy camp by her friends, family, and boyfriend after … Continue reading
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Nolan Crawford, Author of FM 11.3 (2020) Article “’He’s Fictional, But You Can’t Have Everything’: Screwball Comedy and the Viewer’s Reality”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Nolan Crawford: My article is a comparative analysis of three films, two of which are classic screwball comedies from the 1930s and the third of … Continue reading
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Mise-en-Scène Scrapbook: Hugo (2011) by Dan Verley
After his father dies in a fire, Hugo Cabret (Asa Butterfield) is taken in by his Uncle Claude (Ray Winston), who takes care of the clocks at a train station. Claude is a drunk and eventually disappears, leaving Hugo to … Continue reading
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Vanessa Zarm, Author of FM 11.3 (2020) Article “The Significance of Ingrid Goes West’s Obsession with Social Media”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Vanessa Zarm: My article centers around Matt Spicer’s 2017 dark comedy Ingrid Goes West and discusses its contemporary representation of social media, which shares a … Continue reading
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Qingyang Zhou, Author of FM 11.3 (2020) Article “Discovering the Beauty of the Quotidian: The Contemporary Flâneur in Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Qingyang Zhou: My article uses the theory of flâneur, developed by Charles Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin, to analyze the relationship between poetry, the urban landscape, … Continue reading
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FM 11.3 (2020) Released!
Film Matters announces the release of FM 11.3 ,via Ingenta and EBSCO. (Due to the ongoing COVID-19 situation, print copies will follow once the Intellect offices are back open at some point in 2021.) In this issue, you will find the … Continue reading
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Arta Barzanji, Author of FM 11.2 (2020) Article “A Still Cinema: Sohrab Shahid Saless’s Still Life (1974)”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Arta Barzanji: The article is, for the most part, a close reading of Saless’s Still Life, generally considered to be one of his two masterpieces. … Continue reading
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