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Intellect is pleased to announce that Film Matters 12.3 is out now!

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Aims and Scope

Film Matters is an exciting film magazine, celebrating the work of undergraduate film scholars. It is published three times a year, by students and for students, and each issue contains feature articles, as well as a healthy reviews section. In addition, with an undergraduate audience in mind, Film Matters includes occasional service-oriented pieces, such as profiles of film studies departments, articles that engage the undergraduate film studies community and prepare students for graduate study in this field, and resources and opportunities that undergraduate scholars can pursue. In an effort to give undergraduate scholars real-world, applied learning experiences, all Film Matters feature submissions undergo a peer review process. 

For more information and content visit the Film Matters website.

Issue 12.3

Editorial

By Tim Palmer and Liza Palmer

ARTICLES

Cult Victim Turned Cult Star: The Hyperreal Image of Sharon Tate

By Reid Anderson

Into the Spider-Verse and a New Age of Comic Realism

By Sophie Barbour

Examining the Function of Pretrauma Cinema, WALL-E and the Warning for Our Future

By Georgina Beeby

Gregg Araki and Queer Asian American Empowerment in the Teenage Apocalypse Trilogy

By Amanda Coates

An Attitude Means a Style. A Style Means an Attitude: The Free Cinema Movement in 1950s Britain

By Harriet Crisp

Makavejev’s Neo-Documentarism

By Leo Nelki Göpfert

Orientalist Stereotypes and Transnational Feminisms in Disney’s 1998 and 2020 Mulan

By Emily Nighman

Transnational Filmmaking: The Intersubjective Gaze in Desierto

By Matthew Scipione

Cracks in the Ornament: Spectatorial Relationships and Labors of Looking in Gold Diggers of 1933

By Leif Tystad

White Saviors Get Gold Trophies: Colorblind Racism and Film Award Culture

By Hannah Vliet

THE ROMANIAN NEW WAVE AT 20

Otto the Barbarian: Patriarchy, Feminism, and Romanian New Wave Cinema

By Randall Rodriguez

Authority Figures in Post-Revolutionary Society: Examining Romanian Attitudes Toward the Police in Pororoca and Police, Adjective

By Mason Leaver

BOOK REVIEWS

Aesthetic Categories of Transdisciplinarity in Debashree Mukherjee’s Bombay Hustle, Debashree Mukherjee (2020)

By Mridula Sharma

Children’s Books on the Big Screen, Meghann Meeusen (2020)

By Raena Kerr

Making Worlds: Affect and Collectivity in Contemporary European Cinema, Claudia Breger (2020)

By Elena Pitsilidou

It Follows, Joshua Grimm (2018)

By Tia M. Adkins

Harrison Ford: Masculinity and Stardom in Hollywood, Virginia Luzón-Aguado (2020)

By Grace Smith

Scholarship as Love’s Work: Catherine Wheatley’s Stanley Cavell and Film

By Abigail Tulenko

FILM REVIEWS

Yema: Close Your Eyes and Listen

By E. Rafael Jacobs-Perez

In My Blood It Runs (2019)

By Digby Houghton

Mudbound (2017)

By A. G. Lawler

20th Century Women (2016)

By Carleigh Laxton

1917 (2019)

By Kayleigh Penny

T2 Trainspotting (2017)

By Logan Wells

DVD/BLU-RAY REVIEWS

Mandabi (1968)

By Hollie Middleton

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Two Takes (1968, 2005)

By Vanessa Zarm