Get Out (Spoiler Alert!)
I saw, Get Out, directed by Jordan Peele one of the last days it was in theaters, and I thought it was fantastically horrifying and...
Queer Cinema
In Amy Borden’s chapter, “QUEER OR LGBTQ+ On the question of inclusivity in queer cinema studies,” she discusses the multifaceted...
Tom Gunning’s Cinema of Attractions
In Tom Gunning’s chapter, “The Cinema of Attraction[s]: Early Film, Its Spectator and the Avant-Garde,” he discusses this idea of the...
Nichols: The Fake Fruit, The Black House, and The Inscription of War
In Bill Nichols’s chapter, “How Have Documentaries Addressed Social and Political Issues?” He underlines the inherent difficulties of...
bell hooks - Laughing Gas
In her work on the oppositional gaze, author bell hooks discusses the idea of a totalizing representation of the black body by white...
The Cinematic Representation of Women in Film
In John Berger’s, Ways of Seeing, he sets up a dichotomy of representation between man and woman. Man is independent of his own...
Maternal Voice
In Kaja Silverman’s article, “The tri-faceted theory surrounding the application of the mother’s voice in mainstream cinema and cinematic...
A Quintessence
In Laura Mulvey’s “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”, the author discusses ways in which cinema utilizes certain techniques that...
Eisenstein’s Montage
In Ralph Steiner’s H2O we see a whole short comprised of montage, exemplifying a few of Sergei Eisenstein’s definitions about the various...