A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
In this piece, Amanda Klein explores how Black Swan employs the conventions of art cinema in order to engage the mind, and uses the conventions of horror, melodrama, and pornography to engage the body.
Read moreAn examination of displaced voices in Drunk History
Read moreAymar Jean Christian dissects what’s wrong with everyone’s favorite video channel.
Read moreLucas Hilderbrand celebrates the pleasures of the ABC sitcom Cougar Town and assures us, “It’s okay to watch.”
Read moreThe DVD set for the film Avatar invites viewers to “extend the journey,” exemplary of the elasticity of the film’s boundaries.
Read moreCan the enviro-slacker audience of IFC’s Portlandia laugh at themselves?
Read moreIn the true, unfolding experience of watching cinema, in our actual presence with the image, our sense of being struck depends on our relation to telltale moments.
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