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More distantial from the eye. -- W. MontaguIf editing is the act of storytelling through the careful control of audience attention, then Amarcord might be considered a quixotic example of se… Read More

‘Iterative Architecture: a Ballardian Text’ by Brian Baker Instructions/ Introduction Readers hoping to solve the mystery of J.G. Ballard’s ‘The Beach Murders&rsqu… Read More

Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami can be fascinating because of his audacity to toy around with the minds of intelligent, discerning viewers. His Shirinwas a feature film exclusively ca… Read More

Founders and chief executives of some of the UK’s most entrepreneurial businesses, from early stage start-ups to household names, have come out in support of the UK remaining within th… Read More

www.nashville.com by: Jason Shawhan Songwriter Is the Best Movie About Country Music — See It Monday at the Belcourt The 1984 Kris Kristofferson/Willie Nelson film screens July 3… Read More

New Brontë-related (and quite different) research:Jane Eyre, IdentifiedYung-Hsing WuReception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, HistoryVol. 9, No. 1 (2017), pp. 82-86Jane Eyre has long b… Read More

www.nashville.com by: Jason Shawhan Songwriter Is the Best Movie About Country Music — See It Monday at the Belcourt The 1984 Kris Kristofferson/Willie Nelson film screens July… Read More

Looking back on this Mexican Cinema Series, we’ve seen how Mexico’s national identity and cultural history was central in shaping the twenty-first century Mexican new wave (Buena… Read More

Remember the scene from the movie “Taken” where Bryan Mills, played by Liam Neeson, tells the kidnapper, “I will find you, and I will kill you”? Even though the movie… Read More

My issues with what I’d seen of Zoya Akhtar’s work so far were related to the question of perspective. The outlook of Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara and Bombay Talkies revealed an ove… Read More

Esprit; August-September 2007. Bazin wrote in Esprit. Why shouldn’t I? — It’s often a “dispositive” that’s at the source of composition in fine art. A di… Read More

           Author Jon Wengatrom has noted that as early as October of 1933 director Gustaf Molander and cameraman Julius Jaenzon were among the founding me… Read More

Acting is an activity in which a story is told by means of its enactment by an actor or actress who adopts a character—in theatre, television,&n… Read More

STORY: As soon as feisty lawyer Mira Kapoor (Parineeti Chopra) is spiralling below the trauma of dropping her little one, a husband she had liked and a profession that was blossoming&helli… Read More

Some dialogues in a movie affect the viewers, and they even get assimilated into their daily lives. Let us take the instance of the film “Taken”. The famous dialogue “I wi… Read More

Diegesis is where a narrator tells the story to the reader. It's a style of comic book storytelling where the experiences are Read More

Diegetic Sound Explained Sound is a vital part of any film. It can set the mood, change our emotions, and move us in ways that visuals alone cannot. There are many types of sound that we hea… Read More

 In Adam’s school, some enterprising publisher has given away a bunch of new kid’s books and the teacher has assigned the task of reviewing them to the kids. To help the kid… Read More

A Method of Moments — The Aesthetics of Redundancy in Ikarie XB 1Information Theory in Early 1960s Sci-Fi Filmsource“The method of moments involves equating… Read More

Narrative Theory SeriesDesigning Games & Interactive StoriesThere are three main kinds of narratorial devices: voice, focalization and distance. Voice imparts a sense of personality… Read More

What would you want in a mini-console? (pic: Sony)The Friday letters page asks why Nintendo doesn’t buy more developers, as one reader is confused at Naughty Dog’s view of Th… Read More

Now that Fire Emblem Engage has been out for a few weeks, we’ve got a pretty clear impression of what it is, and more broadly, what it isn’t. The fourteenth mainline entry in… Read More

This is a film criticism essay that is about a 1990s urban Los Angeles drama called “Menace II Society” that was directed by Albert and Allen Hughes. A link to the film on the op… Read More

Planet of Lana is a platformer game that immerses players in a cinematic adventure through a mysterious and ominous world. Developed by Wishfully and published by Thunderful Publishing, this… Read More

Conventional wisdom would have you believe that Yuletide is the unquestionable highlight in everyone’s calendar and, for a lot of westerners, that is probably true. After all, who ca… Read More