Category Archives: Interviews
Abby Walkur, Author of FM 12.1 (2021) Article “Three Cheers for the Essay Film: How Chris Marker’s Vive la baleine Epitomizes Timothy Corrigan’s Model”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Abby Walkur: My article—“Three Cheers for the Essay Film”—utilizes esteemed scholar Timothy Corrigan’s essay film model to explain how famous French essayist Chris Marker’s Vive … Continue reading
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Chuyi Zhang, Author of FM 12.1 (2021) Article “Deconstructing the Other’s Other: Analyzing the Chinese Female Image in the Film Saving Face”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Chuyi Zhang: My article mainly focuses on the film Saving Face created in 2004 by Chinese American director Alice Wu, which carries a lot of … Continue reading
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Maria Mutka, Author of FM 12.1 (2021) Article “’To Begin on Again’: A Study of Early Cinema’s Unique Influence on Modernist Literature”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Maria Mutka: My article is a brief study and overview of an emerging field of cinema-literature cross sectional studies. The article argues that famous modernist … Continue reading
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Sam Lawson, Author of FM 11.3 (2020) Article “‘Deviant’ Psychosis: An Exploration of the Production and Consumption of Queer and Transgender Women in the Films of Brian De Palma”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Sam Lawson: I have consistently found myself drawn to the analysis of LGBTQ+ representation in mainstream media; as such, my article was a result of … Continue reading
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Ron Ma, Author of FM 11.3 (2020) Article “In Defense of What? The Battle Between Netflix and the Cannes Film Festival”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. RM: My article examines the controversy between Netflix and the Cannes Film Festival. In 2017, Cannes announced that it would ban films not released in … Continue reading
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Nolan Crawford, Author of FM 11.3 (2020) Article “’He’s Fictional, But You Can’t Have Everything’: Screwball Comedy and the Viewer’s Reality”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Nolan Crawford: My article is a comparative analysis of three films, two of which are classic screwball comedies from the 1930s and the third of … Continue reading
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Vanessa Zarm, Author of FM 11.3 (2020) Article “The Significance of Ingrid Goes West’s Obsession with Social Media”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Vanessa Zarm: My article centers around Matt Spicer’s 2017 dark comedy Ingrid Goes West and discusses its contemporary representation of social media, which shares a … Continue reading
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Qingyang Zhou, Author of FM 11.3 (2020) Article “Discovering the Beauty of the Quotidian: The Contemporary Flâneur in Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Qingyang Zhou: My article uses the theory of flâneur, developed by Charles Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin, to analyze the relationship between poetry, the urban landscape, … Continue reading
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Arta Barzanji, Author of FM 11.2 (2020) Article “A Still Cinema: Sohrab Shahid Saless’s Still Life (1974)”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Arta Barzanji: The article is, for the most part, a close reading of Saless’s Still Life, generally considered to be one of his two masterpieces. … Continue reading
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George Turner, Author of FM 11.2 (2020) Article “Just Images: The Spectacle of Judicial Systems in Documentary Cinema”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. George Turner: This article explores, from various angles, the ethical questions concerning the representation of judicial systems in three documentary films. More specifically, I examine … Continue reading
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