Amanda Cataldo
List Writer
Contributing since March, 2022
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About Amanda Cataldo
Amanda is a Melbourne-based list writer for Collider, freelance film critic and essayist. She holds a bachelor's degree in Media Screen and Sound Production from the University of New South Wales and in 2022 was awarded First Class Honours and the University Medal for her thesis on radical queer representation in horror cinema.
Her film criticsm reflects on a range of genres but she is most fascinated by movies that push boundaries and dare to be different. As she is a strong advocate for diversity and representation on screen, much of her writing builds upon the perspectives in queer film theory and feminist film studies. With over six years of experience writing about film, she aspires to contribute novel ideas to film criticsm that not only change the way we think about film and television, but change the way we feel about it.
Latest Articles
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