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Film Matters 15.3 is out now!
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Film Matters 15.3 is out now!

Intellect is pleased to present Film Matters 15.3!

 

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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 15.3

 

Editorial

By Liza Palmer and Tim Palmer

 

FEATURES

 

Contradictions in Metal: A Comparative Analysis of Sound of Metal (2019)

By Alice Alonso Limongi

 

Humanoids in Transition: Corrupted Binaries, Fluidity, and Embodied In-between

By Sarah Dean

 

Sentries of the Earth: Thinking Space and Revolution with Gillo Pontecorvo

By Eli Pallrand

 

The Trans-Terminator: Glitch Feminism in We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (2021)

By Andrew Roberts

 

BOOK REVIEWS

 

White Cottage, White House: Irish American Masculinities in Classical Hollywood Cinema, Tony Tracy (2022)

By Jay Burgart

 

New Wave, New Hollywood: Reassessment, Recovery, and Legacy, Nathan Abrams and Gregory Frame, eds. (2021)

By Maria Caravousanos

 

A New History of Documentary Film, 3rd ed., Betsy A. McLane (2023)

By Sylvia Felice Docker

 

The Red Years of Cahiers du cinéma (1968–1973), Daniel Fairfax (2021)

By Joseph Jasnoch

 

Coming to Know a Writer Through His Interviews

By Anna Karnedy

 

The Space of Sex: The Porn Aesthetic in Contemporary Film and Television, Shelton Waldrep (2021)

By Oisín McGilloway

 

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sofia Coppola, Suzanne Ferriss, ed. (2023)

By Maggie Norwine

 

Marlene Dietrich’s ABC’s: Wit, Wisdom, and Recipes, Marlene Dietrich (2022)

By Marietta Smith

 

A Silence from Hitchcock, Murray Pomerance (2023)

By Stella Sosa Wallace

 

FILM REVIEW

 

Eraserhead: Exploring Fear Through Unreality

By Ana Paula Rodriguez Ruiz

 

DVD/BLU-RAY REVIEWS

 

Nanny (2022)

By Brittany Utley

 

Playtime (1967)

By John Droder

 

The Eight Mountains (2022)

By Skye Foley

 

Paris, Texas and a Journey Through Clouds of Despair

By Jack Lohman

 

Wings of Desire (1987)

By Miles Weiskopf

 

Rebecca in 1 Frame

By Ruby Schweitzer

 

The Red Balloon in 6 Frames

By Sam Bannasch, Savannah Moriarty, Austin Rambo and Hannah Robinson