Word: aestheticization
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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I understand Lucas' enthusiasm for technological advances, but I think the look of film has more aesthetic value than digital's supercrisp, ultra-clean images. I agree with writer-director M. Night Shyamalan, whom you quoted as saying, "You almost have to degrade the [digital] image to make it more...
Too bad the script strays into strange territory like a befuddled traveler. Scenes such as the aforementioned kidnapping--Loretta's loopy/jealous stapler-salesman boyfriend Dave (Tom Barnett) throws Michael into his car's trunk--are so top-heavy with look-at-me absurdness that they nearly capsize the whole effort...
It's called the porn curriculum, and it's quietly taking root in the ivory tower. A small but growing number of scholars are probing the aesthetic, societal and philosophical properties of smut in academic departments ranging from literature to film, law to technology, anthropology to women's studies. Those...
That said, these are reasons to work for continued progress, not to rest on laurels; by considering the way their approach to politics affects the diversity of students who become involved in their organizations, political groups can build memberships whose foundations stretch beyond any particular demographic group. In doing so...
“While we consume movies, movies consume us,” states Rob Moss, the Rudolf Arnheim Lecturer on Filmmaking in the department of Visual and Environmental Studies. “Yet films are difficult to make. It’s difficult to makes sense of the world...