Category Archives: Interviews
Jack Zornado, Author of FM 13.1 (2022) Article “Hitchcock and the Internalization of Soviet Sound Theory”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Jack Zornado: This article is focused on Alfred Hitchcock’s use of sound and how he evolved as an experimental filmmaker, unafraid to experiment with new … Continue reading
Hannah Vliet, Author of FM 12.3 (2021) Article “White Saviors Get Gold Trophies: Colorblind Racism and Film Award Culture”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Hannah Vliet: “White Saviors Get Gold Trophies: Colorblind Racism and Film Award Culture” analyzes the cultural “text” of Green Book’s Best Picture acceptance speech at … Continue reading
Georgina Beeby, Author of FM 12.3 (2021) Article “Examining the Function of Pretrauma Cinema, WALL-E and the Warning for Our Future”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Georgina Beeby: This article is about pretrauma cinema in relation to the film WALL-E. It explores E. Ann Kaplan’s proposal of pretrauma as a subgenre … Continue reading
Reid Anderson, Author of FM 12.3 (2021) Article “Cult Victim Turned Cult Star: The Hyperreal Image of Sharon Tate”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Reid Anderson: In this article, I aim to provide context to and shed light on not only the career and star image of Sharon Tate … Continue reading
Leo Nelki Göpfert, Author of FM 12.3 (2021) Article “Makavejev’s Neo-Documentarism”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Leo Nelki Göpfert: This is an article analyzing the film WR: Mysteries of the Organism by Dusan Makavejev through the lens of a totally different … Continue reading
Emily Nighman, Author of FM 12.3 (2021) Article “Orientalist Stereotypes and Transnational Feminisms in Disney’s 1998 and 2020 Mulan”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Emily Nighman: This article compares Disney’s original 1998 animated film, Mulan, and the 2020 live-action remake to examine the negative and positive treatment of Chinese/American … Continue reading
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
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
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
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