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The meaning of the triple R in RRR

Posted on November 16, 2023November 16, 2023 by Ajah
Since the beginning of the film, I was struck with a strong sense of community and resistance of the Indian people fighting against the tyranny of the British prior to Hindi nationalism. With these tw... Read More

The Significance of the Ghetto Blaster in Do the Right Thing #RIPRadioRaheem

Posted on November 15, 2023November 15, 2023 by Ajah
Many critics often detest Spike Lee’s work, noting that it is an unnecessary call to violence and a grotesque depiction of racial relations. I completely disagree with this stance. I believe the... Read More

The Illustration of Spectacle in Coraline

Posted on November 13, 2023November 13, 2023 by Ajah
For Halloweekend, one night a friend and I binge-watched a series of spooky movies, during our week about spectacle. Thus, this movie marathon left me thinking. In correspondence to the related film, ... Read More

(Reader) The Unattainability of Historical Truth Within a Documentary

Posted on October 30, 2023October 30, 2023 by Ajah
In the wake of the Haitian revolution, the approaching Black or “slave” lead state burned their oppressors’, the French, land in attempts to make their domain uninhabitable, to even bare... Read More

The Uncanny Disturbing Reality of Jordan Peeles’ “Nope”

Posted on October 25, 2023October 25, 2023 by Ajah
In Peele’s film, he conveys a sense of human confusion toward “non-behaving” non-human entities, like the Chimp, Gordy, the alien ship-shaped threat, and even O.J.’s horse, Lucky. ... Read More

Illusions Portrayal of Raced-Based Narrative in a Film

Posted on October 9, 2023October 9, 2023 by Ajah
This short forty-minute film briefly tackles themes of strategic social masking, as we follow a white passing-Black woman who climbs the latter in Hollywood to hold an executive position at National S... Read More

(Searcher) How the Golden Age in Film Transitioned to Sound

Posted on October 4, 2023October 4, 2023 by Ajah
As the narrator states, “It was a comfortable system that we had in place and we thought it would last forever” (2020) I chose this video to direct our attention to because, similarly to t... Read More

(Reader) Long Single-Shot Scenes to Editing — The Progression of Cinema over Time

Posted on September 17, 2023September 17, 2023 by Ajah
Prior to 1920, films gained criticism on whether it was appropriately categorized as cinematography for it to put so much reliance on editing. After this period film theorists began to realize how exp... Read More

Cinemotagraphy in Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (viewer)

Posted on September 13, 2023September 13, 2023 by Ajah
Céline Sciamma wonderfully portrays the beauty and predestined constraints of Queer love mirrored by the Greek story of Orpheus and Eurydice. Primely signified through color dynamics and long shots t... Read More

The Objectification of Window Shopping

Posted on September 3, 2023September 7, 2023 by Ajah
Hitchcock’s “Rear Window” wonderfully showcases the overwhelming perception and infliction of The Male Gaze. In the introductory shot of Lisa, as we’ve reviewed, she was seen a... Read More

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