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2017 Judges Found!
Film Matters is happy to report that we have found our three judges for the 2017 Masoud Yazdani Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Film Scholarship. Many thanks to all who offered! And we look forward to announcing the winner toward the … Continue reading
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Calling All Instructors: Judges Needed
Now that all volume 7 (2016) issues have been released, Film Matters is searching for three judges to determine the winner of the 2017 Masoud Yazdani Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Film Scholarship. For more information about this award, please … Continue reading
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FM 7.3 (2016) Has Arrived!
Film Matters is pleased to announce that issue 7.3 is officially out. It’s our last 2016 issue — and a big one, at that! Here, you’ll find the following peer-reviewed feature articles: Constructing (Black) Girlhood: Americanization, Assimilation, and Ambivalence by Ouma Amadou … Continue reading
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Filmatique Screens New Asian Voices in May
During the month of May, Filmatique will host a collection of films from New Asian Voices. First films from Peng Fei Song, Hyun-ju Lee, and Eddie Cahyono screen alongside the elegant third feature from Le-Van Kiet. Though from countries as … Continue reading
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Death by Hanging (1968). Reviewed by Film Matters Spring 2017 Editorial Board
Death by Hanging Criterion Blu-ray Review from Liza Palmer Contributors: Lizzie Bankowski, Tayler Camplin, Chandler Mackenzie Comes, Michael Edwards Jr., Kenneth L. Freyer, Bobby Hartman, Claire Kalb, Megan Kiss, Jeremy Meyers, Kimberly Mariah Smallwood, Chamberlain Staub, Stephanie L. Triplett, Emmett Williams, and Kelli Wofford.
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Cinemedia CFP: Cinemas of Distraction
In his 1926 essay “Cult of Distraction,” Siegfried Kracauer drew attention to the recently constructed grand movie theaters of the time, calling them “palaces of distraction” and “shrines to the cultivation of pleasure.” In such palaces, he wrote, “the stimulations of the senses succeed each other … Continue reading
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Debt in History CFP
Department of English University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada 18-19 May 2018 At a Q&A that followed a Toronto screening of Little Men (2016), a film about two families’ battle over a lease and its impact on the lives of its … Continue reading
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Filmatique Screens Post-Soviet Cinema in April
During the month of April, Filmatique will screen films from a constellation of post-Soviet nations — Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and the Republic of Georgia. These countries have all declared independence in the wake of the disintegration of the former … Continue reading
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Announcing Themed CFP 9.2
Film Matters is officially announcing a themed call for papers — on neglected cinemas and post-global politics — for consideration in issue 9.2 (2018), guest edited by Kelli Fuery and students at Chapman University. The deadline is September 1, 2017. Undergraduates and … Continue reading
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Introduction: Videographic Essays (Issue 1, 2017). By Allison de Fren & Adam Charles Hart
The utilization of digital technologies and audiovisual materials to present film and media research and analysis is gaining increasing acceptance as an alternative to the written scholarly essay. Whether called the “video essay,” “audiovisual essay,” or “visual essay,” videographic criticism … Continue reading
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