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Film Matters 14.1 is out now!
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Film Matters 14.1 is out now!

Intellect is pleased to announce that Film Matters 14.1 is out now!

 

For more information about the journal and issue click here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/film-matters

 

Aims & Scope

 

Film Matters is an exciting peer-reviewed film magazine, celebrating the work of undergraduate film scholars. It is published by students and for students and each issue contains feature articles, a healthy reviews section, and occasional pieces such as profiles of film studies departments or resources and opportunities that undergraduate scholars can pursue.

 

Issue 14.1

 

Editorial

By Liza Palmer and Tim Palmer

 

FEATURES

 

How Does the Representation of Psychosis in Joker (2019) Provide Stereotypes That Affect Society’s Attitude Toward Mental Illness?

By Ruby Ellen Hubbard

 

Camp Cinema and the Queer Experience

By Gabrielle Lamb

 

“You know how the game goes, Baby”: Exploring Intersections of Power in Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song

By Tillie Quattrone

 

BOOK REVIEWS

 

Making Movies, Sidney Lumet (1996)

By Andrew Belmonte

 

Horror Film and Otherness, Adam Lowenstein (2022)

By Chloe Crawford

 

Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge, Joseph McBride (2021)

By Zoe Garden

 

The Rhythm of Images: Cinema Beyond Measure, Domietta Torlasco (2021)

By Emily Heiser

 

Adaptation for Screenwriters, Robert Edgar and John Marland (2019)

By Peyton Holland

 

Black Panther: Interrogating a Cultural Phenomenon, Terence McSweeney (2021)

By Ethan Lee

 

Olivia de Havilland: Lady Triumphant, Victoria Amador (2019)

By Lauren Mattice

 

Wild Bill Wellman: Hollywood Rebel, William Wellman Jr. (2021)

By Joey McDevitt

 

The Thought of Stanley Cavell and Cinema: Turning Anew to the Ontology of Film a Half-Century After The World Viewed, David LaRocca, ed. (2020)

By Audrey Mitchell

 

Joan Crawford: The Essential Biography, Lawrence J. Quirk and William Schoell (2021)

By Mariami Razmadze

 

The Stardom Film: Creating the Hollywood Fairy Tale, Karen McNally (2020)

By Tessa Throneburg

 

Transmedia Directors: Artistry, Industry, and New Audiovisual Aesthetics, Carol Vernallis, Holly Rogers, and Lisa Perrott, eds. (2019)

By Dan Verley

 

Post-Fordist Cinema: Hollywood Auteurs and the Corporate Counterculture, Jeff Menne (2019)

By Logan Wells

 

FILM REVIEWS

 

Ode to Valley Girl (1983)

By Emma Fergusson

 

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On: Life Through Googly Eyes

By Allan Gutierrez

 

DVD/BLU-RAY REVIEWS

 

Beasts of No Nation Asks, Can War Be Beautiful?

By Cole Clark

 

Working Girls (1986)

By Zoe Rogan

 

The Furies (1950)

By Matthew Scipione

 

The Plague Dogs (1982)

By Yaakov “Jacob” Smith

 

Bull Durham in 1 Frame

By Carrie Goodison