Category Archives: film

reviving the kino-eye

by zcm Posted on June 20, 2010

i will off to ireland it just a few days to shoot a documentary on gaelic games. the documentary is sponsored by an at&t “new media” fellowship and was organized by the watson institute at brown. i’m thrilled to be … Continue reading →

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Parnassus: Terry Gilliam as the Last Surrealist

by zcm Posted on January 27, 2010

Terry Gilliam is the last surrealist. His latest film, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, confirms such an assertion with its dazzling and disorienting visual effects. In “the imaginarium” Dr. Parnassus brings visitors into a world of the dreams, an inversion … Continue reading →

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New Cinematic Depth: Avatar & The End of the Image

by zcm Posted on January 25, 2010

If Avatar has changed anything about then movies, then it has changed everything. Let’s begin by considering what depth means to cinema. Historically, depth has only existed as a perspective, the idea taken from painting and camera optics that all … Continue reading →

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the victorian parkour cinema spectacular: re-inventing sherlock holmes

by zcm Posted on December 27, 2009

scholarship on sherlock holmes has always been preoccupied with two themes: the question of the sleuth sexuality (or, what’s all this about Watson then?) and the idea of Holmes as a rational, modern individual who is frequently made to deduce … Continue reading →

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the tastemaker’s broadcast #1

by zcm Posted on August 18, 2009

the five coolest things from last week this is rundown of the coolest things i came across last week. it includes a remix, a video game, two trailers, and an essay. i am going to try to do this more … Continue reading →

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Fort Hill: An Animated Poem

by zcm Posted on July 6, 2009

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Notes on a DVD

by zcm Posted on June 7, 2009

I have long believed that film students and critics need a real (or reel if you will excuse the pun) tool for critically annotating film. Now that DVD technology has advanced enough, I imagined a program or even a simple … Continue reading →

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i, am an enchanter

by zcm Posted on April 2, 2009

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This Week In Film Theory: Sergei Eisenstein

by zcm Posted on March 20, 2009

i’ve been taking an outstanding film theory class with phil rosen this semester. rosen, it tuns out, is kind of the reigning critical perspective on the authors we are reading: eisenstein, bazin, munsterberg, etc. a couple of weeks ago, in … Continue reading →

Posted in brown university, Culture, culture studies, film, media, semiotics | Tagged aesthetics, eisenstein, soviet, theory | 2 Comments

Carnaval Cinematica: Between Film Festivals

by zcm Posted on February 26, 2009

it has been an incredibly rich semester for film at brown. in addition to providence’s beloved french film festival (run by richard manning and the amazing people over at the mcm department) there has also been an israeli film festival, … Continue reading →

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