Category Archives: Interviews

Sloane Dzhitenov, Author of FM 13.3 (2022) Article  “In the Infinite Pool: The Cinematic Spectatorship of Sleep Has Her House (2017)”

Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Sloane Dzhitenov: “In the Infinite Pool: The Cinematic Spectatorship of Sleep Has Her House (2017)” is an exploration of the slow and landscape cinema values … Continue reading

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Emily Moore, Author of FM 13.3 (2022) Article “Trains and Constrains: Re-Examining the Griersonian Documentary Influence upon David Lean’s Brief Encounter (1945)”

Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Emily Moore: My article explores the documentary-genre influence on Brief Encounter, with specific focus on Griersonian-influenced short films. In a way, the paper is split … Continue reading

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Monica Foster, Author of FM 13.3 (2022) Article “Flâneuserie Reimagined: Ida and Purposeful Wandering”

Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Monica Foster: Much has been said about Charles Baudelaire’s nineteenth-century figure, the flâneur, and its relation to a variety of different disciplines. The flâneur was … Continue reading

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Emma Fergusson, Author of FM 13.3 (2022) Article “‘A Ritz Among Laundrettes’: Identities and New Waves in My Beautiful Laundrette”

Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Emma Fergusson: My article, “’A Ritz Among Laundrettes’: Identities and New Waves in My Beautiful Laundrette,” analyzes the 1985 Stephen Frears-directed film, My Beautiful Laundrette, … Continue reading

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Emily Heiser, Author of FM 13.2 (2022) Article “Empathizing with James Baldwin in I Am Not Your Negro

Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Emily Heiser: My article examines the critical reception of Raoul Peck’s film I Am Not Your Negro (2017) and how the film’s unique ability to … Continue reading

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Interview with Will Kitchen, Author of Romanticism and Film and Film, Negation and Freedom. By Brittany Utley

Brittany Utley: What sparked your interest in wanting to investigate Romanticism and its connection to film?                                                                   Will Kitchen: Pretty much all the work I’ve done since I started my film studies back in 2011 has been driven by … Continue reading

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The Butterfly Queen: Interview with the Filmmakers. By Alexis Johnson

Alexis Johnson: Please tell us about The Butterfly Queen in your own words. Liam O’Connor-Genereaux (director): I wanted to tell a love story about friendship. Lots of movies focus on true “romantic” love (it’s one of the most celebrated forms … 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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