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Film Matters 10.3 is out now
Tuesday, July 07, 2020

Film Matters 10.3 is out now

Intellect is pleased to announce that Film Matters 10.3 is out now! 

 

For more information about the issue and journal, click here >> 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 10.3

 

EDITORIAL

 

Editorial: Remembering John Pruitt (1952–2019)

Liza Palmer and Tim Palmer

 

FEATURES

 

Paris Is Burning: Intersectionality in 90s Queer Cinema

Tara Brew

 

Valerie the Vampire Slayer: Abjection, the Czech New Wave, and Feminist Interventions

Alexandra Coburn

 

History of Terror: The Non-Hammer Horror Period Piece and British National Identity

Joe Day

 

Purple Reign: The Contradictory Use of the Royal Color Purple in Disney’s Animated Villains

Suzi Fera

 

I Ain’t Afraid of No Remake: Exploration of the Financial, Marketing, and Societal

Failure of Ghostbusters: Answer the Call

Jason Husak

 

Cyborg Feminism: Ambiguity and Hybridity of the Female Cyborg in Metropolis

Madi Margolis

 

Threshold Figures: The Babysitter in American Film

Sarah Matthews

 

“Utter the flood of feeling”: Melodrama and Musical Score in Douglas Sirk’s Written on the Wind (1956)

Alyson E. Picard

 

Exploring the Relationship of the Geography and People Through Composition in the Films of Abbas Kiarostami

Parul Tiwari

 

Critical Anti-Realism in Chinese Postsocialist Films Chicken Poets (Meng Jinghui, 2002) and Asia One (Cao Fei, 2018)

Justine Xi

 

BASED ON ACTUAL EVENTS DOSSIER

 

Based on Actual Events Introduction

Fabrizio Cilento

 

Cultural Hybridity and Biopics on Artists of Mexican Heritage: La Bamba, Selena, and Frida

Nathan Simms

 

Rise: Ini Kalilah: The Challenges of Defining a Multicultural Malaysian Identity

Kai Y. Leong

 

The Philosophy of Documentary and Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine

Hannah Holway and Lucy Bolton

 

Hawking2: A Retrospective on Adaptation

Katharine R. Chamberlain

 

The Indonesian Massacre as Perceived by the Lens: The Year of Living Dangerously, Pengkhianatan G30S/PKI, 40 Years of Silence: An Indonesian Tragedy, The Act of Killing, and The Look of Silence

Jemma Detwiler

 

REVIEWS

 

Sisters (1972)

Bill Friedell

 

New Nonfiction Film: Art, Poetics, and Documentary Theory, Dara Waldron (2018)

Keara Kobzowicz

 

No Other Way to Tell It: Docudrama on Film and Television, Derek Paget (2013)

Kai Y. Leong

 

Docudrama Performs the Past: Arenas of Argument in Films Based on True Stories, Steven N. Lipkin (2011)

Nathan Simms

 

Why Docudrama?, Alan Rosenthal (1999)

Michelle Winegardner

 

CATASTROPHE! DOSSIER

 

Digesting the Indigestible: Narrative, Guilt, and Responsibility in Yann Martel’s and Andrew Cividino’s “We Ate the Children Last”

Tom Ue

 

Crime of Calligraphy: The Importance of the Pen in Done In

James Munday

 

Class Norms: The Expectation of Social Roles in Family Guy

Alex Affonso

 

The OASIS Manifesto

Jonathan Hage

 

The Mechanization of Desire in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis

Neil Macdonald

 

Blade Runner and Altered Carbon: Aesthetic and Setting in Cyberpunk

Benjamin West

 

The Duality of Dystopian and Utopian Perspectives in Literature and Film

Jason Botham