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Monkey Puzzle Shorts Block. Reviewed by Red Broadwell
The Monkey Puzzle shorts block of Cucalorus features experimental shorts existing in the limbo between dream and nightmare. These shorts use surreal imagery to convey indescribable parts of the human experience or fears we don’t dare speak of. This review … Continue reading
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Leaving Hollywood: Jim Jarmusch’s Night on Earth. By Callum McGrath
“You’re really happy driving this taxi? Is that your whole goal in life?” So asks Victoria, a Beverley Hills casting agent who has just offered her cab driver an acting role. Filmed with velveteen richness as dusk bleeds into night, … Continue reading
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Vanessa Zarm, Author of FM 13.2 (2022) Article “How Ordinary People Breaks the Stigma of Manila’s Street Children”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Vanessa Zarm: My article centers around Eduardo W. Roy Jr’s 2016 Filipino film Ordinary People, which explores the central issue of street children and baby-snatching … Continue reading
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Jade Courchesne, Author of FM 13.2 (2022) Article “Two Worlds Combined: How Cleverman (2016-2017) Reimagines Indigenous Storytelling”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Jade Courchesne: This article discusses the Australian television drama, Cleverman, a show that blends together science fiction, conventions of the superhero genre and influences from … Continue reading
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Saveria Amicucci, Author of FM 13.2 (2022) Article “Brechtian Orality in The Journals of Knud Rasmussen”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Saveria Amicucci: I’m a big fan of Zacharias Kunuk, and my article began as my attempt to articulate what drew me to his films. I … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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Call for Print Reviews
Film Matters is actively seeking book and film/DVD/Blu-ray reviews by current undergraduate students for future print issues. Here is our list of available books: We also have the following Blu-ray(s) from Criterion (before requesting a Blu-ray, please make sure you … Continue reading
Citation Ethics and Inclusive Scholarship: Fostering Equity in Academic Discourse. By Alexis Johnson
During my senior year of undergrad, I was assigned to peer review papers for a film studies class I was taking. Usually, this process is pretty uneventful, with the biggest offense typically amounting to a couple of comma splices and … Continue reading
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Sound and Image in Psycho: An Analysis of Herrmann and Hitchcock’s Affective Methods of Evoking Horror. By Lena Streitwieser
Alfred Hitchcock has long been considered the “master of suspense,” most commonly because of how he used cinematography to instill fear in the audience. Yet, Hitchcock made distinct use of other elements of filmmaking along with visuals to induce horror. … Continue reading
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Open Call for Papers 16.1
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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