

Dudley Andrew’s misguided “Target of Film Theory”
By M.L. Bream Cinema is, and has been, undergoing an undeniable shift in recent decades with the advent and propagation of digital...


An Inventory of FX: Marshall McLuhan Revisited
Since first publishing “The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects” in 1967, Marshall McLuhan’s theories of media’s impact on...


Binge is the New Black: Netflix and Contemporary Cinematic Practices
In his seminal 1971 essay “Technique and Ideology: Camera, Perspective, Depth of Field,” Jean-Louis Comolli calls for a...


Cinematic Identification: Holding a Mirror up to the Spectator through the Theories of Metz and Els
By Emily Howell → If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Likewise, if a man lives without...