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Our 2020 Masoud Yazdani Award Judges
Film Matters is pleased to announce that judging for the 2020 Masoud Yazdani Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Film Scholarship is underway. Articles under consideration are from the following fine institutions: Arizona State University Chapman University City University of New … Continue reading
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Alyson E. Picard, Author of FM 10.3 (2019) Article “‘Utter the flood of feeling’: Melodrama and Musical Score in Douglas Sirk’s Written on the Wind (1956)”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Alyson E. Picard: My article analyzes the connection of Frank Skinner’s musical score to the melodramatic tropes within Douglas Sirk’s film, Written on the Wind … Continue reading
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Madi Margolis, Author of FM 10.3 (2019) Article “Cyborg Feminism: Ambiguity and Hybridity of the Female Cyborg in Metropolis”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Madi Margolis: A posthuman figure like the female cyborg challenges traditional humanist feminism in ways that make room for theorizing new subjectivities and feminist epistemologies. … Continue reading
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Reviewed by Jason Husak
Warning: Review contains mild spoilers for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker based only on trailers and promotional materials. Ever since the original Star Wars (George Lucas, 1977) first released in the early summer of 1977, movies have never been … Continue reading
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Justine Xi, Author of FM 10.3 (2019) Article “Critical Anti-Realism in Chinese Postsocialist Films Chicken Poets (Meng Jinghui, 2002) and Asia One (Cao Fei, 2018)”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Justine Xi: My article discusses the deviation of two films in style and intention from contemporary independent Chinese filmmakers commonly referred to as the Urban … Continue reading
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Alexandra Coburn, Author of FM 10.3 (2019) Article “Valerie the Vampire Slayer: Abjection, the Czech New Wave, and Feminist Interventions”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Alexandra Coburn: It’s about this film that was made in the 1960s in what was then Czechoslovakia and now the Czech Republic. It was essentially … Continue reading
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Film Matters Online: Vision Statement and Guiding Principles. By Sydney Boone, JaZmyn Shambley, and Sophia Stolkey
If you’re reading this statement, you likely agree that film, indeed, matters. As we assume our new responsibilities as Film Matters online editorial board during these months of global pandemic and political unrest, we have reflected deeply on how, why, … Continue reading
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King of Staten Island (2020). Reviewed by Livi Edmonson
Judd Apatow’s latest installment, The King of Staten Island (2020), is a semi-autobiographical film about comedian and Saturday Night Live star, Pete Davidson, and his life growing up in Staten Island. The generic elements and tropes of the “coming-of-age” narrative … Continue reading
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Sarah Matthews, Author of FM 10.3 (2019) Article “Threshold Figures: The Babysitter in American Film”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Sarah Matthews: My research began with a desire to investigate the one-dimensional and often negative on-screen representations of babysitters, as well as the formulaic narratives … Continue reading
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Jason Husak, Author of FM 10.3 (2019) Article “I Aint Afraid of No Remake: Exploration of the Financial, Marketing, and Societal Failure of Ghostbusters: Answer the Call”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Jason Husak: I really wanted to write an article that showcased the different representations of feminism in film. As a feminist, myself, I find it … Continue reading
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