On INCEPTION and Narrative Complexity
[spoilers ahead] I’m a bit late to the party on Inception, which dominated my twitter feed a week or so ago. The consensus from the assortment of academics, bloggers, and film journalists that I follow...
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The Voice in Animation
One of the pleasures of scholarship is that a research question frequently leads one down unexpected paths. For instance, my master’s thesis began as a study of contemporary realist cinema as a...
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The Whole and The Parts: Three Versions of “Somebody I Used to Know”
A friend of mine recently brought to my attention Gotye’s fascinating, innovative video for “Somebody I Used to Know.” While watching it on YouTube, I noticed a couple of cover versions of the song in...
View ArticleWatching ‘Buffy’: Preliminary Remarks
On TV and Mixtapes At the end of 2012, I found myself, for the first time in nearly five years, dating back to the beginning of my master’s degree, with little to do. I finished my Ph.D. coursework in...
View ArticleIn Memoriam: Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert died today. As a boy growing up in a small, rural town in the pre-internet days, he was the only film critic to which I had access, and, as such, he was—and for the very same reason,...
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Watching ‘Buffy’: Seasons 1–3
As I mentioned previously, my commentaries on Buffy the Vampire Slayer began on Facebook, and, early on, they were more like live-blogging comments more so than reviews. As my interest in the show...
View ArticleWatching ‘Buffy’: Season 4 Premiere
This installment of Watching ‘Buffy’ brings together my “virgin” view of the season four premiere with the re-view of Noel Kirkpatrick, who writes for Monsters of Television, This Was Television, and...
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I Can’t Shake ‘Spring Breakers’
I cannot recall the last time a movie of recent vintage has stayed with me, has burrowed its way into my brain, quite like Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers. It is an art film masquerading as an...
View ArticleOscar Predictions
No time for a preamble. Here are my Oscar predictions and my personal favorites in each of the “major” categories. Best Supporting Actress Will win: Jennifer Lawrence My choice: Lupita Nyong’o Best...
View ArticleKeywords @ SCMS14
In a recent interview with Bill Kirkpatrick for the Aca-Media Podcast, Angelo Restivo, program chair of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference, notes the increased diversity of topics,...
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