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Kyle Stanley, Coauthor of FM 9.1 (2018) Article “What Makes HAL 9000 a Character in 2001: A Space Odyssey?”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Kyle Stanley: The article is titled “What Makes HAL 9000 a Character in 2001: A Space Odyssey” and was written for Dr. Todd Berliner’s Aesthetic … Continue reading
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Linnea Warburton, Author of FM 9.1 (2018) Article “I Ain’t Afraid of No Ghosts: Positive Female Representation in the Ghostbusters (2016) Remake”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Linnea Warburton: My article looks at the new Ghostbusters (2016) movie and examines the positive ways in which the movie represents women. The action movie … Continue reading
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Grant Brighter, Author of FM 9.1 (2018) Article “Warped Space-Time: Exploiting Schematic Assumptions in Ritual in Transfigured Time”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Grant Brighter: This project examines an underdeveloped area of inquiry pertaining to the American avant-garde during the 1940s: the dynamic between the avant-garde and the … Continue reading
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A Legacy of Tolerance: An Interview with Serena Dykman, Director of Nana (2016). By Ashley Spillane
“Never again,” the phrase associated with the Holocaust, is a reminder of the value of memory. The Holocaust memory is increasingly important in society today as survivors pass away and intolerance continues to exist. Many dedicated their postwar lives to … Continue reading
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Elizabeth Riggs, Author of FM 9.1 (2018) Article “Mental Illness and the Monstrous Mother: A Comparison of Representation in The Babadook and Lights Out”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Elizabeth Riggs: This article is an examination of the monstrous mother, as portrayed in the films The Babadook and Lights Out. Specifically, it looks at … Continue reading
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Interview with Austen Sprake, Director of Murder Go Round (The Student Film That Never Was). By Lily C. Frame
Murder Go Round (The Student Film That Never Was) is a feature-length student film produced by the liberal arts institution, St. Lawrence University (SLU), and directed by their 2018 film graduate, Austen Sprake. Like many, Sprake sparked his adoration for … Continue reading
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Interview with Dr. Candace Grissom on Her Recent Book, Fitzgerald and Hemingway on Film: A Critical Study of the Adaptations, 1924-2013. By Kenneth L. Freyer
Kenneth L. Freyer: Please introduce yourself. Candace Grissom: My name is Dr. Candace Grissom, and I was born and raised in Cullman, AL. In August, I finished a three-year contract as a full-time Instructor of English at Motlow State Community … Continue reading
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Interview with Craig Batty and Susan Kerrigan, Editors of Screen Production Research: Creative Practice as a Mode of Enquiry. By Ashley Spillane
Craig Batty and Susan Kerrigan’s book Screen Production Research: Creative Practice as a Mode of Enquiry explores screen production—filmmaking and screenwriting—as a research method. Made up of a collection of essays by international experts in field, the book defines and … Continue reading
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An Interview with Vito Adriaensens, Coauthor of Screening Statues: Sculpture and Cinema. By Matthew Johnson
Film Matters had the immense pleasure of discussing Screening Statues: Sculpture and Cinema (Edinburgh UP, 2017) with its one of its coauthors, Vito Adriaensens, in summer 2018. Comprising a variety of topics central to the intermedial crossroads of sculpture and … Continue reading
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An Interview with Vikkramm Chandirramani, Following the Release of His Short Film Destiny (2018). By Matthew Johnson
As a call and response to online dating and a prevalent reliance on social media, writer/filmmaker Vikkramm Chandirramani offers a comedy short Destiny, set in modern India, through which he explores and readdresses preconceptions of romance expectation, attitudes toward the … Continue reading
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