Film Matters Magazine

It is with great sadness that Film Matters announces the death of Masoud Yazdani, chairman of Intellect – our publisher and dear friend.  It’s never easy to begin referring to someone in the past tense – particularly someone so full of vigor and charm as Masoud.  As we struggle to process his passing, we take comfort in reflecting on the overwhelming impact his life has had on others and, by extension, the world of publishing.  Film Matters certainly wouldn’t exist today, if he hadn’t been willing to take a chance on the project.  Indeed, Masoud gave voice to many people over the years – often saying that his customers were his authors, not his readers – including our undergraduate authors.  These voices will chorus his consequence for years to come.  Film Matters is proud to be a member of the Intellect family, proud to have known Masoud, and proud to be a part of his legacy.  And we will work hard to insure that each issue of Film Matters honors Masoud’s vision and celebrates his enthusiasm for publishing.

Tim & Liza Palmer

To read more about Masoud, please visit:  http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/weblog/view-Post,id=67565/view/

Film Matters is always on the lookout for guest editors — film instructors, bring the Film Matters experience to your undergraduates!  The editors-in-chief will mentor you through the process, sharing syllabi and assignments as needed.  And the end result is a unique applied-learning experience for your students, and a hard-copy artifact to highlight your department/university and share with stakeholders and prospective students.  For more information, contact Liza today:  futurefilmscholars AT gmail.com

Film Matters is pleased to announce the release of issue 4.1, which includes the following peer-reviewed feature articles:

• Sub-Cultural Ethnography and the Case for Dogtown and Z-Boys by Christopher G. da Canha
• “Hearing” War Crimes: Affective Evocation of Violence and Political Engagement through Sound Editing in Jean-Luc Godard’s Masculin Féminin (1965) and Michael Haneke’s Caché (2005) by Kevin Hatch 
• Emotional Engagement in Representations and the Issue of Perceptual Realism by Hanna Kubicka 
• Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull, Italian American Masculinity, and the American Dream by Christina Marie Newland
• More than a Musical Mission from God: Themes of Unification in The Blues Brothers as Fleshed Out by Bollywood Masala Cinema
  by Grayson Nowak
• Fantasia and the Generic Confluence of Convention and Abstraction by Erin Nunoda
• CGI: An Evolution in Cinema by Matthew D. C. Stamm
• Pied Piper vs. Faun: Storybooks and Female Empowerment in The Sweet Hereafter and Pan’s Labyrinth by Amanda Stonebarger

These featurettes:

• Der Räuber/The Robber (2010) and the Berlin School by Amy Lewis
• A Conversation with Su Friedrich by Jacob Mertens
• Is It Worth It? by Eliccia N. Edwards
• For Film Fans by Film Fans: A Look at Firstshowing.net by Joey Powell

And our first dossier on film schools and resources, which includes the following special featurettes:

• UC Berkeley’s Film Studies Program by Eamon Fay 
• Western Carolina University’s ‘‘Motion Picture and Television Production’’ Program by Rachel C. Gentry
• Florida State University College of Motion Picture Arts by Brooke Gibson
• Not Your Average Film School: A Brief Overview of SMFA by Jonathan V. Mariano
• Obligated to In-State by Lawson Sitterding
• Longhorns with Lenses by Levi Vasquez
• The Moving Image Archives at UNCSA by Joshua D. Zich 

Not to mention some engaging reviews of recent books, films, and DVDs/Blu-rays by Jude Warne, Shane Wisniewski, Kale Hills, Brendan Boyle, and Duygu Eyrenci.

It’s a packed issue!  For more information, please visit:  http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals../view-issue,id=2585/

And think about becoming a Film Matters author today!  Submit to open call 5.3 by February 1, 2014!