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Intellect is pleased to present Film Matters 15.2!

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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 15.2

Editorial

By Liza Palmer and Tim Palmer

CHAPMAN FEATURES

Feedback, Fugitivity, and Overexposure: Monique Walton’s Dark Matters and the Criterion Channel’s Afrofuturism Collection

By Francesca C. DiBona

Crip Fatale: Deviance and Dis/Ability in Otto Preminger’s The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)

By Charlie Mc Evoy

Marta Rodríguez: When Cinema Unleashes Social Change and Serves as a Historic Archive

By Vanessa Anzola Castellanos

UNCW FEATURES

Parasite: The Microcosm of Power Chasm Under the Hypercapitalism Paradigm

By Yixuan Ma

“Bro, You Just Filmed Cringe!”: Cringe Cinema and So-Bad-It’s-Good in the Internet Age

By Aidan O’Malley

Hybridized and Hyphenated Ethnic American Identity in Rocky IV: The Ordinary Whiteness of the American Action Hero in Reagan-Era Cinema

By Ciara Whelan

Representations of Doubling in Film: Can Two Become One?

By Ann Zhang

CHAPMAN FEATURETTES

How Ideology Asks Masculinity and Femininity to Be Complementary: An Interview with Hilary Neroni

By Taylor Bazella

Exploring the Multiverse: A Deep Dive into Rachel Noll James’s Ingress (2023)

By Colette Victorino and Grace Garrou

A Conversation with a Hollywood Veteran: Opening Weekend

By Estefania Rosas De La Maza

Working Corporate for Hollywood’s Biggest Film Studios: An Interview with Jacquelyn Kim

By Cecily de Leon

Knowing the Difference: Identification and Existentialism in A.I. Artificial Intelligence

By Carol Liddle

BOOK REVIEWS

Transformative Power of Music in the World of Dennis Hopper

By Bronwynn Buakong

The Fictional Reality of Abbas Kiarostami

By Jackson Burns

The Significance of the Children’s Horror Film Genre

By Angelina Eap

Black Women and the Changing Television Landscape, Lisa M. Anderson (2023)

By Taylor Fetterman

Simply Sublime: How Art and Cinema Shape History

By Emma Wu

FILM REVIEWS

Burning (2018)

By Holland Elana

Her: Exploring the Connection of Human–AI Relationships

By Jacqueline Fox

The Spectacular Thrill of Nope (2022)

By Ruby Schweitzer