Matthew Jones

Matthew Jones is an independent film scholar and film studies, photography and media teacher at Arizona Conservatory for Arts and Academics and Estrella Mountain Community College with a focused interest in genres and genre films, most notably horror, classical gangster and the Western. His latest writing on the Western, Demystifying the Myth: The Western’s Classical Phase , can be seen at Deep Focus Review , while his most recent study, Antagonistic Nature: The Loss of Anthropocentric Authority in Eco-Horror of the 1970s and 1980s is about to surface. He is also a cinematographer, photographer and associate member of the National Coalition of Independent Scholars who tweets @ghostofFire. Matthew received his BA in Media Studies from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro and his MH in Art and Visual Media from Tiffin University.