Dr Matthew Cipa
Affiliate Research Fellow
School of Languages and Cultures
Teaching Associate in Film and Television
Teaching Associate
School of Communication and Arts
+61 7 336 52486
Book
Cipa, Matthew (2024). Is Harpo free? : and other questions of the metaphysical screen. Albany, NY, United States: SUNY Press. doi: 10.1515/9781438497365
Book Chapters
Cipa, Matthew, Nannicelli, Ted and Fantini, Joel (2024). Ferrara’s polarizing critical reception: clarity, coherence, and incongruity. ReFocus: The films of Abel Ferrara. (pp. 32-47) edited by Florian Zappe. Edinburgh, United Kingdom: Edinburgh University Press. doi: 10.1515/9781399520119-005
Cipa, Matthew (2023). The role of philosophy in Schiller’s prose. The Palgrave handbook on the philosophy of Friedrich Schiller. (pp. 441-455) edited by Antonino Falduto and Tim Mehigan. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-16798-0_25
Cipa, Matthew (2022). Performative restraint and the challenges of empathy in being there and phantom thread. Autism in film and television. (pp. 227-239) edited by Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer. Austin, TX United States: University of Texas Press. doi: 10.7560/324912-017
Journal Articles
Cipa, Matthew (2024). A tale of two donkeys: transcendent creatures and transcendental style in Au Hasard Balthazar and EO. Senses of Cinema (109).
Cipa, Matthew (2023). Jackass Forever, directed by Jeff Tremaine, MTV Films, 2022. Australasian Journal of American Studies (AJAS), 42 (1), 74-78.
Austin-Smith, Brenda, Cipa, Matthew and Trifonova, Temenuga (2020). Book review: Mario Slugan, Noël Carroll and Film: A Philosophy of Art and Popular Culture (New York: Bloomsbury Academic). Projections, 14 (3), 110-115. doi: 10.3167/proj.2020.140308
Cipa, Matthew (2016). Review of Maarten Coëgnarts and Peter Kravanja, Embodied Cognition and Cinema ((Leuven University Press, 2015), 382 pp., €30.00 ISBN: 978-94-6270-028-4. Projections, 10 (2), 143-149. doi: 10.3167/proj.2016.100208
Thesis
Cipa, Matthew (2020). Metaphysical film and television: the aesthetic experience of abstract reality. PhD Thesis, School of Communication and Arts, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2020.755