Category Archives: Interviews
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
Suzi Fera, Author of FM 10.3 (2019) Article “Purple Reign: The Contradictory Use of the Royal Color Purple in Disney’s Animated Villains”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Suzi Fera: “Purple Reign” Is a stylistic analysis of the use of the color purple in Disney animated feature films. It argues that, until very … Continue reading
Joe Day, Author of FM 10.3 (2019) Article “History of Terror: The Non-Hammer Horror Period Piece and British National Identity”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Joe Day: This article examines British horror films that have used historical events of the nation to fuel their narratives.
K. M. Wise, Author of FM 10.1 (2019) Article “Generational Horror: A Comparison of Tim Curry’s and Bill Skarsgård’s Portrayals of Pennywise in Stephen King’s IT”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. K. M. Wise: My article that is being published in Film Matters is titled “Generational Horror: A Comparison of Tim Curry’s and Bill Skarsgård’s Portrayals … Continue reading
Eduard Saakashvili, Author of FM 10.1 (2019) Article “Celebrity Theorists and the Filmic Embodiment of Thought”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Eduard Saakashvili: I analyze the documentary representation of critical theorists. Specifically, I look at how the filmic representation of their ideas interacts with the filmic … Continue reading
Safwat Nazzal, Author of FM 10.1 (2019) Article “Off-Script: Toward a Revolutionary Arab Cinema”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Safwat Nazzal: My article examines Maysoloun Hamoud’s Bar Bahar, as a contemporary Palestinian film that delivers profound meditations on the stagnation of cultural identity through … Continue reading
Sean Carson, Author of FM 10.1 (2019) Article “Film Noir Heroes and the American Dream: Examining Contradictions in American Ideology through Fred Zinnemann’s Act of Violence”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Sean Carson: My article is an analysis of the spectrum of film noir heroes as depicted in Fred Zinnemann’s Act of Violence. I argue the film … Continue reading
Grace Wallace, Author of FM 10.1 (2019) Article “’Movies Are Supposed to Move, Stupid’: Examining Movement in Chris Marker’s La Jetée”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Grace Wallace: When we screened La Jetée in our senior seminar, I was struck by its simplicity and, despite this, its capacity to so accurately … Continue reading
Nashuyuan Serenity Wang, Author of FM 10.1 (2019) Article “Filmic Architect or Architectural Filmmaker?: Examining the Relationship Between Space and Cinema in the Work of Michelangelo Antonioni”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Nashuyuan Serenity Wang: Michelangelo Antonioni is a director who is known for his distinctive visual style and his articulation of landscape, architecture, and cinematic space … Continue reading
Gabrielle Despaigne, Author of FM 10.1 (2019) Article “Space Sirens: The Portrayal of Women in French New Wave Sci-Fi”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Gabrielle Despaigne: My article is about how French New Wave science fiction films have a unique portrayal of women within their stories, all of which … Continue reading