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Category: Film Theory

The Art of Early Cinema: Seeing and Storytelling

Registration is now closed. A Newberry Library Adult Education Seminar. This seminar offers a lively overview of cinema styles from … More

film theory, silent film

Appreciating Form in Books and Movies

A Newberry Library Adult Education Seminar This seminar offers a lively survey of some of the artistic techniques, styles, innovations, … More

film, film theory, form, literary criticism, literary theory

Six Revelations Provoked by Theater-Screening The Wizard of Oz

Oh you can say there’s nothing to be gained by seeing The Wizard of Oz on the big screen of … More

film, Judy Garland, movie criticism, Rudolf Arnheim, screen size, Wizard of Oz

Ebert and Writing

“Eventually you’ll know more than I do, and then you can have the job.” Roger Ebert. This is from Ebert’s … More

film, movie criticism, Roger Ebert, writing

Showing and Telling

You can hold a mimetic theory of the novel if you believe the narrational methods of fiction to resemble those … More

David Bordwell, diegetic, film theory, mimetic, narration, novel, painting

 

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