Audience-ology: How Moviegoers Shape the Films We Love by Kevin Goetz My rating: 5 of 5 stars Kevin Goetz’s book… Read more BOOK REVIEW: Audience-ology by Kevin Goetz
Tag: film studies
The Story Justifies the Means: the Ethics of Manipulation in ‘Stories We Tell’
How to understand the ethical value of a documentary such as Sarah Polley’s Stories We Tell (2012), which focuses more… Read more The Story Justifies the Means: the Ethics of Manipulation in ‘Stories We Tell’
Sex: The Addiction That Can’t Save the Stars
On November 27 of 2009, golf legend Tiger Woods totaled his SUV after smashing it against a tree outside his… Read more Sex: The Addiction That Can’t Save the Stars
Between Bombs, Bombshells & Femme Fatales: North Texas Cinemas During WW2
In 1943, while the European and Pacific fronts of World War II raged on, the Hollywood studios did their part… Read more Between Bombs, Bombshells & Femme Fatales: North Texas Cinemas During WW2
When You Wish Upon a Scar
[Nov. 17th, 2007. Dallas, TX. In collaboration with: M.H., K.G., S.E.] Conception of the Project After choosing the art we… Read more When You Wish Upon a Scar
Anti-Heroism: Sinners & Not-So-Saints
We live in a “transitional state, where the masses no longer trust the elites and are confused about their values.”[1]… Read more Anti-Heroism: Sinners & Not-So-Saints
On Faith, Chance, and CHILDREN OF MEN
Out of the several films and books that have stricken me in the past, Children of Men has a special… Read more On Faith, Chance, and CHILDREN OF MEN
The Spectrum of Documentary Cinema
Documentary filmmaking may be the trickiest and most malleable of genres, mostly because of the contradictory questions at its core.… Read more The Spectrum of Documentary Cinema
The Three Hitchcocks
Every time I have to face the question “do I like Alfred Hitchcock?” I find… Read more The Three Hitchcocks
Barney’s Business
All fans and followers of the hit TV sitcom How I Met Your Mother (HIMYM) could and should agree that there’s… Read more Barney’s Business
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