Melodrama, Cinema, and the Mechanization of Emotions
In order to understand the conventions of film music, either from the silent or the sound era (including the silent-to-sound transitional period of 1926-1936), ...
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The Compilation Score of The Children of Men(2006)
Although the practice of building a film music score by selecting a number of pre-recorded songs has been well established since the 1970s, this method of “comp...
Hearing a Needle in a Haystack: Playful Disorientation and Laughter in Tati’s Play Time (1967).
Directed and written by Jacques Tati, and produced by Jolly Film and Specta Films, Play Time was released in France in 1967 after three long years of expensive ...
After SXSW 2012
The last 10 days have been full of cultural activities here in Austin due to the annual SXSW conference/festival. The town-city of Austin transforms, for few da...
Waiting in Line for Iron Sky
Waiting in lines is one of the cultural practices of the attendees to the SXSW festival. Tonight we did again a very long line around the Ritz Theater in oder t...
The Sensorial in Early Tim Burton’s Feature Films
Grotesque, Gothic, and bizarre, are some of the adjectives that commonly describe the films directed by Tim Burton. Although their stories are often simple, Bur...