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I Am Jack's Lack of Surprises2 comments

jaycruz wrote 3 weeks ago: Fight Club: The Return of Hobbes In the film Fight Club, the real name of the protagonist (Ed Norton … more →

Tags: Film and Television, calving and hobbes, fight club, Movies

No Retreat, No Surrender: MUSK

moviemasher wrote 4 weeks ago: No Retreat, No Surrender Directed by Corey Yuen Written by Ng-See Yuen and Corey Yuen Starring Kurt … more →

Tags: Action Films, Film Reviews, martial arts films, Best of the Best, Bruce Lee, Jean Claude Van Damme, Kárate, Kurt McKinney, Loren Avedon

A deep, dark secret3 comments

Nutsferatu wrote 1 month ago: I used the word “homage” during lunch last Friday, and a colleague literally burst out laughing. Gre … more →

Tags: General, Film History, filmmakers, the audience, Postmodernism, References, Intertextuality, Homage, french new wave

Quick Veronique Critique!6 comments

gopikann wrote 1 month ago: As I was not fully quenched by Kickasola, I read the user comments on IMDB, a few other critics and … more →

Tags: Readings, writing, Phenomenology, cultural theory, Visual culture, Questions, rants, criticism, Film Critique

'Awakenings' and Disinhibitors: Thoughts on the human-animal distiction2 comments

avoidingthevoid wrote 1 month ago: In his book, ‘The Open’, Georgio Agamben unfogged another area of his intellectual terra … more →

Tags: Agamben, animals, Biology, Graham Harman, Heidegger, Object-Oriented Philosophy, film, Ontological Equality, oop

Aliens and Ideology

avoidingthevoid wrote 2 months ago: During a lecture by Zizek which can be found HERE, he mentions the John Carpenter film ‘They L … more →

Tags: Ideology, aliens, zizek, John Carpenter

Week 21 comment

puddinghead9 wrote 2 months ago: BLASTED– week 2 of school is already half over!!! and I, like I expected, am already behind in … more →

Tags: rants, Time Management, School, Classes, 2nd week of school, Week 2, context of theatre, Theory, Readings

First Stage: Between Boston and New York1 comment

cinemaonmymind wrote 2 months ago: The blogg has just started to work, a short paper with some remarks about Wim Wenders’s film L … more →

Tags: Cinema, Philosophy

3-D Cinema and the limits of behaviour1 comment

Nick Redfern wrote 2 months ago: A recent article in The Guardian asked the question: Is James Cameron’s 3D movie Avatar the sh … more →

Tags: Film Studies, Film Industry, 3-D cinema

...adieu

deftflourish wrote 2 months ago: not all adventures were designed with sequels in mind .. such a journey was never intended to includ … more →

Tags: Acting, Actors, Art, Authors, Character Study, Community, Creative Writing, elizabethan, film

Shot Length Distributions in the Chaplin Keystones3 comments

Nick Redfern wrote 2 months ago: This week I have another draft of a Cinemetrics paper, this time looking at shot length distribution … more →

Tags: Cinemetrics, Charles Chaplin, Film Studies, Silent Cinema, Film History, film style, charlie chaplin, Hollywood, Keystone Film Company

Film Theory in Pakistan: Recognizing the Need for Theory4 comments

Zia Ahmad wrote 2 months ago: By Zia Ahmad   There are parts of the world where writing meaningfully about films has generally bee … more →

Tags: Art, Cinema, Culture, media, Pakistan, Film Critic, Film, godard, Pakistani cinema

More on Inglorious Basterds

Dylan Byers wrote 2 months ago: Daniel Mendelsohn’s review in Newsweek brought up many of the same ideas I tried to articulate … more →

Tags: film, quentin tarintino, Inglorious Basterds, Daniel Mendelsohn, Newsweek

Shot scales in Hollywood and German cinema, 1910 to 19393 comments

Nick Redfern wrote 2 months ago: This week’s post presents a first draft of a piece on shot scales in Hollywood and German cine … more →

Tags: Cinemetrics, Film Studies, Film History, film style, Hollywood, German Cinema, statistics

Tarintino's Mise-en-Abyme2 comments

Dylan Byers wrote 2 months ago: The following should not to be read by anyone who has not seen the film… Mise-en-Abyme: Meanin … more →

Tags: film, quentin tarintino, Inglorious Basterds, mise en abyme

Consensus, hybridity, and the national in British Cinema

Nick Redfern wrote 3 months ago: In a month’s time I will be presenting a paper at the Manchester Centre for Regional History … more →

Tags: Film Studies, British Cinema

The Discreet Charm of Uniforms

theopencuratorship wrote 3 months ago: The Discreet Charm of Uniforms - An Epistemological Analysis of the Iconographic Uniform A uniform c … more →

Tags: fashion studies, projects, Research, semiotics, uniforms

(not) easy like sunday morning.3 comments

Alli wrote 4 months ago: I am at that point on a sleepy Sunday morning where I am trying to decide whether or not to go back … more →

Tags: Books, Dating, postsecret, Cleaning, organizing, Building, bookshelves, wine crates, Orson Welles

Notes on the Virtual and the Real: Answering Your Questions

artfulcontributor wrote 4 months ago: So I have been very excited for Monday to come around so that I could jump back into blogging courte … more →

Tags: Second-Life, Virtual Reality, Philosophy, Truth, quantum mechanics, Jean Mitry, Casablanca, film, Cinema


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