Category Archives: Interviews
Thomas Cruz, Author of FM 10.1 (2019) Article “The Stigmatization of Queer Black Women in Television”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Thomas Cruz: The article discusses the harmful portrayals of queer black women in television. The idea for the article came to me while I was … Continue reading
Anne Billingsley, Author of FM 10.1 (2019) Article “Rediscovering Paris, Rediscovering Identity: An Exploration of Sounds and Voice in Cléo from 5 to 7”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Anne Billingsley: My article explores the internal perspective of Cléo in Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) as shown through camera and sound devices. I … Continue reading
Chamberlain Staub, Author of FM 10.1 (2019) Article “Manipulating the Masses with Modernism: The Weapon of Abstraction”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Chamberlain Staub: “Manipulating the Masses with Modernism: The Weapon of Abstraction” analyzes the different reactions to avant-garde throughout history. The article focuses on how Hitler, … Continue reading
Chamberlain Staub, Author of FM 9.3 (2018) Article “Confronting Rural Hardship in British Cinema: National Identity in The Levelling and God’s Own Country”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Chamberlain Staub: “Confronting Rural Hardship in British Cinema” argues that The Levelling and God’s Own Country are British heritage films; it is a topic that … Continue reading
Emma Hughes, Author of FM 9.3 (2018) Article “The New Global West: Redefining the Borders of Genre in the Post-Revisionist Western”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Emma Hughes: “The New Global West: Redefining the Borders of Genre in the Post-Revisionist Western” is a revised version of a longer paper that I … Continue reading
Alexandria R. Moore, Author of FM 9.3 (2018) Article “A Feminine Techno-Utopia: Identification/Transformation/Transcendence of Embodiment in Spike Jonze’s Her”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Alexandria R. Moore: This piece was really the culmination of my undergraduate intellectual development. It was, to me, a way of dovetailing my humanities education in … Continue reading
Adam Herron, Author of FM 9.3 (2018) Article “‘Victim Sells’: The Commercial Context of Snuff Fiction and A Serbian Film”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Adam Herron: My article discusses how A Serbian Film demonstrates the commercial context of snuff fiction through its marketing and distribution, as well as its … Continue reading
Florian Zitzelsberger, Author of FM 9.3 (2018) Article “A Recipe to Self-Made Womanhood? Nora Ephron’s Julie & Julia, Domesticity, and Gender”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Florian Zitzelsberger: The article focuses on aspects of domesticity and gender in the film Julie & Julia by director Nora Ephron. I have loved this … Continue reading
Zachary Goldstein, Author of FM 9.3 (2018) Article “Stephen Gaghan’s Syriana: A Challenge to Hollywood Orientalism”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Zachary Goldstein: This article utilizes Stephen Gaghin’s film Syriana as a lens through which to analyze larger trends of Islamophobia and Orientalism in Hollywood film.
Interview with Vikkramm Chandirramani. By Miranda Sprouse
Love triangles are never easy – especially when there’s a murder involved. The Perfect Murder (Chandirramani, 2019) tells the story of Kabir (Rohan Gandotra), his wife Neha (Samvedna Suwalka), and his lover Carol (Niharica Raizada). I recently had the pleasure … Continue reading