Protests throughout the United States and the Black Lives Matter movement have increased focus on police shootings and reports of alleged police misconduct. In the…
The female body has been serially fragmented and commodified for centuries. The most frequently accepted modern manifestation of this in the western world that continues…
Cities built over hundreds of years aren’t meant to be understood over tens of hours. And yet, every year places around the world draw in…
In what seemed like a matter of a night, the outside world transformed. Suddenly it felt like more people were wandering around outdoors, staring…
This week was all about the musical. Yes, yes, chock it up to the theatre geek-dom, but with the announcement of Ariana Grande playing…
In a time when almost everything is available online via illegal streaming, downloading, and Netflix, theaters are having trouble keeping up revenues. In 2014,…
Entering the second week of the 2016 Edinburgh Film Festival I expected to be burned out from the amount of film halfway through the week,…
From La Règle du jeu to Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, the party scene has been a staple of film. They work best when they transcend…
As Elssaser and Hagner point out in their work, Film Theory: An Introduction through the Senses, paranoia thrillers, which were popular in the 1970s, (Three Days…
In the world of moving image and film almost any artistic product is categorized into one of three groups: traditional cinema, artists’ film (or avant…