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Nov 26, 2021

The Day the Movies Died

Thanksgiving Eve, 2021, TCL Chinese Theatre (dress rehearsal for the future). I walk alone across the concrete lobby of the Great exhibition hall. The History of American Cinema hangs in the stale air that reeks of old butter popcorn. …

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The Day the Movies Died
The Day the Movies Died

May 15, 2021

The Aversive Racism of Tenet

When discussing blockbuster entertainments and their representations it’s important to understand genre formulas and expectations as recent trends in Hollywood productions are in direct relation to these models. The subversion of expectation is often the selling point of the new summer blockbuster: The trolling anti-hero (Deadpool), the misunderstood villain (Maleficent…

Tenet 2020

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The Aversive Racism of Tenet
The Aversive Racism of Tenet

Apr 28, 2021

On American Cinema

The American film industry developed under a market economy and a mixed economic aesthetic of State-Capitalism and laissez-faire Capitalism which now dominates the global consensus. Structural and stylistic achievements of the Hollywood Studio System are well documented. From early 20th century technological leaps in sound, leading to “talkies”, to the…

Film Theory

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On American Cinema
On American Cinema

Apr 26, 2021

Nomadland and Baudrillard’s Nightmare

The motivating interest in Chloe Zhao’s new film is that the audience will be swept away to the rural and mythological landscape of the American West. A place that doesn’t exist because it has been bleached to a level of fantasy on par with Spielberg’s Kinder films with the high…

Cinema

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Nomadland and Baudrillard’s Nightmare
Nomadland and Baudrillard’s Nightmare
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