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Television Was Theater, Television is Cinema
More often than not, those discussing the history of television tend to focus on changes in social content or technology. Interesting though those topics may be, my thoughts linger on the change in style and presentation. Continue reading
Posted in Comparative Analysis
Tagged acting, Critical Analysis, Critical essay, film, film student, Film Theory, History, industry, movie, Screenwriting, television, theater, TV, Web Video
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Favorite Versions of A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol has been adapted as a film so many times, it seems almost impossible to count. Everyone has a few of them they like more than the others. Here are three of my favorites: Continue reading
Posted in Comparative Analysis, List
Tagged acting, Alastair Sim, British, Christmas, Critical Analysis, Dickens, Holiday, movie review, Movies, muppets, Screenwriting, Scrooge, television, TV
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Boom Times for Film and Video Makers
Web video has become very profitable and there will be huge increases in motion picture / video related job markets. In other words, now is a good time to be a filmmaker. Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged film, Film schools, film student, industry, Job market, Movies, Screenwriting, television, TV, Web Video
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The British Invasion . . . of American Television
Watching as much television as I do, I’ve noticed what seems to be turning into an enormous trend: British actors (and some actresses) playing Americans in American TV shows. Continue reading
My Top 13 Halloween Movies!
The spooky season is upon us once again! For cineastes, that means putting together a marathon of films to watch on Halloween. In keeping with the festivities, I’ve decided to start a tradition on this blog of listing my top 13 movies to watch on Halloween. This year, I’m listing my top 13 comedic Halloween movies: Continue reading
Posted in List
Tagged acting, film student, Halloween, Holiday, movie review, Movies, TV, Vampires
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Film, TV, & Modern Media as the New Mythology
In the 1988 mini-series “Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth,” one of the ideas Campbell explores is that fictional media (TV, radio, movies, etc) have taken the place of traditional mythology (religious texts/rituals/verbal histories) in the American culture. He further posits that this new mythology is insufficient to support the American psyche in the same way as ancient religions. Is this so? Continue reading
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Tagged Critical Analysis, film student, Film Theory, Movies, Mythology, Religion, television, TV
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The Angsty, Angsty Antihero
My previous post about superheroes got me thinking about the rising popularity of antiheroes. In attempting to define antiheroes, however, there seems to be some conflict as to whether an antihero is a protagonist who happens to be a villain or just a severely flawed hero… Continue reading
Posted in Comparative Analysis
Tagged Antiheroes, Critical Analysis, Dexter, film student, Film Theory, Hamlet, movie review, Movies, Semantics, Superheroes, television, TV, Vampires
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Is There an Easy Genre of Film to Write?
Although, like any form of writing, easy is purely subjective; it seems like some genres are easier to write than others. I don’t know about most people, but for me relationship-based melodramas and horror stories are the easiest. Continue reading
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Tagged Critical Analysis, film student, Movies, Screenwriting, television, TV
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The X-Files and Kolchak: The Night Stalker (part 1)
The X-Files began largely as a modernized take on the 1974 series Kolchak: The Night Stalker – or so it would appear. Both shows focus on a character who is investigating paranormal phenomena (although Kolchak does so only whenever he happens to come upon such situations while Mulder usually seeks them out), but the parallels don’t end there… Continue reading