Category Archives: Interviews

Amanda Coates, Author of FM 12.3 (2021) Article “Gregg Araki and Queer Asian American Empowerment in the Teenage Apocalypse Trilogy”

Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Amanda Coates: My article explores Gregg Araki’s cult trilogy (dubbed the Teenage Apocalypse Trilogy), featuring the films Totally Fucked Up, The Doom Generation, and Nowhere. … Continue reading

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Harriet Crisp, Author of FM 12.3 (2021) Article “An attitude means a style. A style means an attitude: The Free Cinema Movement in 1950s Britain”

Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Harriet Crisp: “An attitude means a style. A style means an attitude: The Free Cinema Movement in 1950s Britain” considers the relation of Karel Reisz’s … Continue reading

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Randall Rodriguez, Author of FM 12.3 (2021) Article “Otto the Barbarian: Patriarchy, Feminism, and Romanian New Wave Cinema”

Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Randall Rodriguez: This article aims at bringing to light some of the underlying themes in Ruxandra Ghițescu’s 2020 film Otto the Barbarian. One way to … Continue reading

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Leif Tystad, Author of FM 12.3 (2021) Article “Cracks in the Ornament: Spectatorial Relationships and Labors of Looking in Gold Diggers of 1933

Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Leif Tystad: My article, “Cracks in the Ornament,” uses Siegfried Kracauer’s text “The Mass Ornament” as a groundwork for defining a predominant visual structure of … Continue reading

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Sophie Barbour, Author of FM 12.3 (2021) Article “Into the Spider-Verse and a New Age of Comic Realism”

Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Sophie Barbour: My article looks at the film Spider-man: Into the Spider-verse and attempts to analyze it as a “realistic” film. The immediate challenge here … Continue reading

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Matthew Scipione, Author of FM 12.3 (2021) Article “Transnational Filmmaking: The Intersubjective Gaze in Desierto”

Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Matthew Scipione: “Transnational Filmmaking: The Intersubjective Gaze in Desierto” is an analysis of Jonás Cuarón’s Desierto (2015). Set against the backdrop of a vast desert, … Continue reading

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Mason Leaver, Author of FM 12.3 (2021) Featurette “Authority Figures in Post-Revolutionary Society: Examining Romanian Attitudes Toward the Police in Pororoca and Police, Adjective

Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Mason Leaver: My article analyzes the Romanian New Wave, and Romanian attitudes toward the police by examining two films: Police, Adjective, and Pororoca. Specifically, it … Continue reading

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Samantha Van Zandt, Author of FM 12.2 (2021) Article “The Triumph of Trauma: Tarantino Style”

Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Samantha Van Zandt: “The Triumph of Trauma: Tarantino Style” illuminates Tarantino’s genius and artistic ability to demonstrate the journey of overcoming debilitating trauma. He provides … Continue reading

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Jonathan Monovich, Author of FM 12.2 (2021) Article “The ‘Eagle Scout Film’: David Lynch as Auteur and Genre Filmmaker”

Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Jonathan Monovich: Knowing David Lynch’s background as an Eagle Scout, my article, “The ‘Eagle Scout Film’: David Lynch as Auteur and Genre Filmmaker” explores how … Continue reading

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Clare Matthews, Author of FM 12.2 (2021) Article “Seeing Triple: Identification and Gamic Vision in Film and FPS Games”

Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Clare Matthews: My article “Seeing Triple: Identification and Gamic Vision in Film and FPS Games” investigates the subjective shot as used in film and first-person … Continue reading

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