Tag Archives: Cinema studies
Looking with Arnheim
Routledge has just published a volume I edited titled ARNHEIM FOR FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES. I’ll admit it seems weird to devote a new volume of media scholarship to the work of Rudolf Arnheim. In our culturalist era, Arnheim seems … Continue reading
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Tagged Arnheim, Art and Visual Perception, Cinema studies, David Bordwell, Film As Art, Film Theory, Garbo, Gestalt, Routledge, VIncente Minnelli
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Stallone, Expendables, and Color Today
I have a theory that Stallone films, like Bond films, are excellent indicators of what film style looks like in popular cinema at any particular moment – they tend to be competent, and to show off whatever is thought to … Continue reading
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Tagged Action Film, Bordwell, Cinema studies, Color, Digital Intermediate, Expendables, Film, Stallone, Technicolor, Wesleyan Film
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