Tag Archives: David Bordwell
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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Serial Art
Here’s a not too brief discussion of what I’ve been up to, and why. Batman dies at the end of Batman’s Last Chance, chapter 10 of Columbia’s 1949 serial. During his punch-up with a gang of The Wizard’s thugs in … Continue reading
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Tagged Action and Adventure Cinema, Batman and Robin, Ben Singer, Brian Taves, Classical Hollywood Cinema, David Bordwell, Flash Gordon, Genre, Lea Jacobs Ben Singer, Melodrama, Phantom Empire, Rafael Vela, Republic Studios, Romance of Adventure, Serials, Situational Dramaturgy, Star Wars, Universal Studios
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