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Celia Mattison is a writer,
film critic, and amateur
scuba diver.
My work has appeared in BuzzFeed News, Vulture, and Bright Wall, Dark Room.
I am also the author of Deeper Into Movies, a monthly newsletter about film, culture, and trends in moviemaking. Subscribe here.
I was an Ann Friedman Fellow in 2022. I've been a film screener for the Alamo Drafthouse's Fantastic Fest and the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival.
Selected Work
“Draculas, Ranked,” Vulture
“Towards the Afropastoral: What Nope Says About the Black Western,” Bright Wall, Dark Room
“The Little Mermaid if It Were Scientifically Accurate,” The Stopgap
“An Interview with Jenny Odell,” BookPage
“RIP Ronzoni’s Pastina, the Star-Shaped Pasta of So Many Italian American Childhoods,” Bon Appétit
“Why I Started Writing Crossword Puzzles,”Catapult
“This Halloween, Nothing Is Scarier Than an Aging Woman,” BuzzFeed News
“The Scream Gap,” The Audacity, unpaywalled here
“Sex, Love, and Assimilation in the New World: A Brief History of White Ethnicities in Rom-Coms,” The Syllabus Project
“Publishing is a Nightmare,” Crime Reads