It is without a doubt that the way disability is portrayed in the media today is drastically different from how the subject was approached in the past. Evidence of this shift can be found in a convers...Read More
Audiences find comfort in films where they know what to expect. When I pressed play on Netflix’s new original film Time Cut (2024), I was confident that my next ninety minutes would comprise of high...Read More
My initial reaction to Holy Motors (Carax 2012) was that the film created an uncomfortable and unnerving experience for its audience. My secondary thought was about Carax’s creative process, as I wo...Read More
This week’s reading in Film Art focuses on genre, highlighting specific conventions utilized in certain types of films and noting the common themes they express. The author discusses technical eleme...Read More
When I watched Citizen Kane, I could not help but compare it to the other older movies we have watched in class. The ways in which this week’s feature is both similar and different from Rear Window,...Read More
The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer, 2023) is a historical film featuring the Hoss family, who resided directly outside of the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. Auschwitz was the lar...Read More
If mise-en-scéne refers to the objects placed in front of a camera, cinematography refers to how the camera captures said objects. This relates to the actual filming as well as post-production editin...Read More
The term mise-en-scéne relates to all of the elements placed in front of a camera during a film. Wes Anderson displays mastery over all of these concepts in his film The Grand Budapest Hotel. However...Read More