PopMatters Seeks Television Critics and Essayists
We are interested in articles about quality television shows. These TV series challenge prejudices and subvert assumptions, and are as artful in their depiction as the best cinema.
Karen Zarker
As Managing Editor for PopMatters, Karen works with the kind of writers she loves to read; writers with smarts, wit, heart, and style -- and a healthy respect for history. Her generalist nature seeks writers, musicians, filmmakers, and other storytellers who are traveled (including those with the mind of a traveler, if not the means), educated (academia has its merits, but so do degrees from the school of hard knocks), broad-minded (those who know that their world is not the center of THE world), and with a healthy sense of humor. She served as a critical reader and editor for some of her professors in college; she is devotedly a writer's reader and writer's editor. A graduate of Columbia College (Chicago, that is) she is a "post-graduate" reader of almost everything but minds. (True story: she was in 'The Closet' with Ellen DeGeneres: https://popm.at/2WIxp7M)
PopMatters Seeks Film Critics and Essayists
Whether revisiting a film that has been unjustly forgotten or ignored, critically analyzing the catalog of a particular director or performer, or doing a cultural study of a particular theme or formal technique, our feature essays provide writers with the opportunity to showcase their talent to an international, media-savvy audience.
Bill Gibron, the Movie Man
A tribute to our friend and colleague, long-time PopMatters film writer Bill Gibron.
‘Le Corbeau’ at the Film Forum (trailer) (premiere)
Why was Henri-Georges Clouzot's film noir Le Corbeau banned by the French film industry?
The Iran-Iraq War Is but One Specter Haunting ‘Moon Brow’
The dance of the masculine and feminine is slow and dangerous with ignorance and assumptions in Shariar Mandanipour's tale of a damaged man's ascent to reality.