THE FILM PUPIL is a bi-monthly magazine on film studies and beyond… In each issue there are five medium-length essays. In-between are features including THE INTERVIEW SECTION (interviews with independent or unconventional directors) THE HISTORY SECTION (influence and tropes of specific genres from cinema’s past), THE DATA SECTION (Infographics answering specific questions on cinema), and THE CARTOON SECTION.
"The Cinemas of Viennale." – Karla Jelic-Balta
"Reviving and Revamping: Tackling Gothic Horror Adaptations in the Modern World." – Emily Costello
"Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and the Pioneering Beginnings of Studio Ghibli." – Ellie Bridge
"Aftersun, Grief, and the Fragility of Memory." – Chloe Buxton
"Edgar Wright and the Genuine Parody." – Oliver Spicer
And Features On:The Data Section: Are Films Getting Too Long?
The History Section: Soviet Westerns
The Cartoon Section
With Interviews:Constantine Costi on directing The Golden Spurtle
Plus Film Lists:Flashforwards • Parodies of Hollywood
"Creepypasta at the Cinema: Online to Big Screen Adaptation in Digimodern Reality" – Barney Nuttall
"Look in the Mirror Sweetheart: Critiquing Female Beauty Standards Through Body Horror" – Emily Costello
"The Horror of Being Human: Alienation and Intimacy in Let The Right One In" – Jordan O’Shea
"How Hooper’s 1974 Masterpiece The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Slashes Audience Expectations" – Eda Gokcen
"A Tube within a Tube" – Oliver Spicer
And Features On:The History Section: Giallo Cinema
The Data Section: Vampires vs Werewolves
The Cartoon Section
With Interviews:Harry Sherriff and Laurence Tratalos on "Misper"
"Crafted in Motion — the Art of Stop Animation." – Karla Jelic-Balta
"Mermaids and Metaphors: Aquamarine and the Magical Messiness of Girlhood." – Isabel Hodges
"Hands Full: Decoding Cary Grant’s Hand Gestures in His Girl Friday." – Barney Nuttall
"The Silent Language — the Existence of the Irish Sound in Modern Cinema." – Fionn Morris
"Class in Golf Comedies." – Oliver Spicer
And Features On:The Data Section: "Shakespeare’s On-Screen Adaptations"
The History Section: "Mockumentaries"
The Cartoon Section
With Interviews:Dag Johan Haugerud, Director of the “Oslo Stories Trilogy”: Dreams, Sex, Love
Film Lists:Odd Shakespeare • Hands • Rare Languages
"The Alien Feminine: Birth and Pregnancy as a Horror Spectacle." – Emily Costello
"20 Years of Bewitchment: Revisiting Joe Wright’s Pride & Prejudice." – Isabel Hodges
"Rural Resonances – Agnès Varda and Alice Rohrwacher." – Karla Jelic Balta
"Walk on the Whimsical Side: Navigating Urban Space in Jacques Tati’s Films." – Barney Nuttall
"My Family and Better Cinephiles." – Oliver Spicer
And Features On:The Data Section: "Sci-Fi Technologies"
The History Section: "Disaster Films"
The Cartoon Section
With Interviews:Joel Haver, Director of "12 Movies in 12 Months"
"4K Restorations, AI, and the Director’s Vision." - Matt Dodd
"Babygirl." - Chloe Buxton
"The Big Lebowski - To Abide or To Not Abide." - Eda Gokcen
"Tired Tropes and Fetish Frenzy: Trans Bodies and Representation in Emilia Pérez." - Emily Costello
"The Fingerprints of Auteurs." - Oliver Spicer
And Features On:The Data Section: "The Best Trilogies"
The History Section: "Stoner Films"
The Biography Section: "Alice-Guy Blache"
The Cartoon Section
With Interviews:Huw Wahl, Director of "Wind, Tide, and Oar"
"Genre and Spectacle in Jordan Peele's Nope." - Eda Gokcen
"On Abbas Kiarostami: A Study on Slowness in Cinema." - Karla Jelic-Balta
"The Death of The Happy Ending: Why Misery is the New Happiness." - Isabel Hodges
"Misogyny Masked in Music: Representations of Traditional Gender Roles, Sexuality, and Sexual Violence in Sweeney Todd." - Emily Costello
"The Cinematic Value of TikTok" - Oliver Spicer
And Features On:The Data Section: "The Sound of Genre"
The History Section: "Czech New Wave"
The Cartoon Section
With Interviews:With Adam Elliot, director of "Memoir of a Snail"
"Saints, Sinners, and Censors: Navigating the Narrow Connection between Anglo-Saxon Martyrs and Video Nasties" - Barney Nuttall
"Through the Lens of Body Horror: Representing Women and Female Bodies in The Substance" - Emily Costello
"The Holdovers and Finding the Spirit of Christmas During Bleak Winter Holidays" - Chloe Buxton
"Sex and the City: Sean Baker's Sex Workers" - Fionn Morris
"A Close Shave: The Semiotics of On-Screen Facial Hair" - Oliver Spicer
And Features On:The Data Section: "Christmas Films"
The History Section: "Mumblecore"
The Cartoon Section
With Interviews:With Directors at Edinburgh International Film Festival Including "And Mrs" (Daniel Reisinger), "King Baby" (Arran Shearing & Kit Redstone), "A Shrine" (Abdolreza Kahani + Cast), "Sunray: Fallen Soldier" (Daniel Shephard & James Clark), "Lollipop" (Daisy-May Hudson)
"Forever Young: Society's Vampiric Obsession with Youth." - Isabel Hodges
"Mia Goth Takes the Throne of the Contemporary Scream Queen" - Eda Gokcen
"Peeping Tom, the Pleasure of Looking and our Morbid Fascination with Violence Against Women" - Chloe Buxton
"Beetlejuice... Beetlejuice: The Juice is Loose Again?" - Emily Costello
"The Broken Projector: Apparatus Theory in the Uneasy Horror of Charlie Kaufman" - Oliver Spicer
And Features On:The Data Section: "BOO! An Analysis of Jump Scares"
The History Section: "Hammer Horror"
The Cartoon Section
With Interviews:With Directors at Edinburgh International Film Festival Including "Sing Sing" (Greg Kwedar), "Sunlight" (Nina Conti & Shenoah Allen), "Lilies Not For Me" (Will Seefried), "Xibalba Monster" (Manuela Irene & Samian Aguilar)
"The Green Ray: One Woman's Summer Vacation Alone, Embracing the Solitude of Self Discovery." - Chloe Buxton
"Turkish Cinema Through the Decades." - Eda Gokcen
"Malick and Being: The Influence of Martin Heidegger on Terrance Malick's Cinematic Project" - Bryn Gatehouse
"From Superheros to Super Problems: The Saturation of the Comic Book Market" - Isabel Hodges
"Water in Animation: Binary Opposition and Folklaw" - Oliver Spicer
And Features On:The Data Section: "An Analysis of Top 100 Film Lists: Critics vs Audiences."
The History Section: "Gimmick Cinema"
The Cartoon Section
With Interviews:"Hundreds of Beaver's" Cinematographer Quinn Hester