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Film Matters 13.1 is out now!
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Film Matters 13.1 is out now!

Intellect is pleased to announce that Film Matters 13.1 is out now!

 

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

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

 

Aims and 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 13.1

 

Editorial

By Tim Palmer and Liza Palmer

 

ARTICLES

 

Divines and the Constructed Self

By Sophie Barbour

 

Chicken Soup for the Postmodern Soul: Philosophizing Spike Jonze’s Her Through the Lens of Evolving Modernity

By Oishika Basak and Abhiraj Goswami

 

Reflexivity, Third Space, and Representation: Radical Reimaginings of the Banlieue in Swagger (2016)

By Jacqueline Brady

 

Western Modernism and the Fetishization of the Hijab: Deconstructing the Movie Hala

By Aatika Fareed

 

Aesthetics in Claymation: An Exploration of Adam Elliot

By Taylor Floyd

 

“I’m Learning to Smoke Now”: The Evolution of Cigarettes in Orson Welles’s The Lady from Shanghai

By Francesca Iucci

 

The Paradise Theater (1941-1951): African American Movie Palaces and the 1943 Racial Uprising in Detroit

By Drew Meinecke

 

Nagisa Ōshima’s Essayistic Exploration of Japan’s “Korean Problem”

By Dylan O’Connell

 

Can Queer Representations in Comedy Be Progressive in the Twenty-First Century?

By Lennox Carlos Encarnacao Roach

 

Ethical Criticism and There Will Be Blood: Autonomism, Moralism, and Immoralist Perspectives

By Giulia Tronconi

 

“No, I am the Man”: Hierarchical Male Homosociality in The Avengers (2012) 

By Sharon K. Yuen

 

Hitchcock and the Internalization of Soviet Sound Theory

By Jack Zornado

 

DOSSIER: DEPICTING SPIRITUAL LIFE THROUGH LITERATURE AND FILM: SILENCE BY ENDO, SHINODA, AND SCORSESE

 

Introduction: What Kind of Faith? On Christian Spiritual Life and the Message of Silence

By Mina Radovic

 

The Internal Journey Toward Spiritual Self-Recognition in Shūsaku Endō’s Silence

By Elijah Young

 

The Sound of Silence: Spiritual Struggle and Apostasy in Masahiro Shinoda’s Film

By Alison Parmenter

 

The Hope of the Cross in Martin Scorsese’s Silence

By Costanza Chirdo

 

FEATURETTES

 

Interview with the Makers of The Portal

By Nicholas Mahoney and Leigh Ann Vicoli

 

Arrival: The Complex Concepts of Time and Language

By Mika Pascual

 

DOSSIER: READING LITERATURE AND SCIENCE

 

Introduction: Can’t Buy Me Love?: Market, Mass Production, and Investment in Steven Spielberg’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence

By Tom Ue

 

How Capitalism Ends Humanity

By Miles Anton

 

Getting Tested for Monsterdom: Frankenstein and Ex Machina

By Chris Van Green