Month: May 2015
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I jumped a shark and I liked it
Of course it’s not believable. Of course it’s not pristine storytelling. It’s got lots of stupid action in it for no real reason. There’s no time for real character development.
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Speed and politics
Cinema is movement. Movement is change. Change is politics — politics regulates change. Movement in the frame is thus political. The addition of speed amplifies the political impetus of cinema. Movement is cinema. * * * [It’s okay, I haven’t lost it. These are perfunctory scribblings for upcoming research, that I thought were strangely poetic. Rough […]
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Teaching film and media in a neoliberal bubble
First point: I am a teacher. This is a role that bestows on me power and control over others. Second point: I am white, male, heterosexual, educated, and middle-class. This is an identity that inscribes within me a particular world-view. Third point: I teach film and media studies. This is a discipline which is inherently […]
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Welles and the frame
Suffice to say that Orson Welles taught me all I ever needed to know about framing*. Happy 100th, old friend. * for ‘framing’, read ‘all of cinema’.
Daniel Binns 