Category: by Elorm Kwesi Ahorsu
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LGBTQ+ REPRESENTATION IN MAINSTREAM MEDIA
The dawn of the 21st century was also the dawn of the third ‘Golden Age of Television’. Some works filed under this era are David Chase’s The Sopranos, Matthew Weiner’s Mad Men and David Simon’s The Wire. Although highly praised, all had difficult male protagonists and toxic masculinity in common (Martin, 2013). As the decades…
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HOW MUSIC VIDEOS BROKE FREE FROM GATEKEEPERS.
Around 2007 the world of music video turned upside down as YouTube became widely recognised as a platform for music video. With his breakout single Crank Dat, Soulja Boy became accredited with pioneering the self-governed music video which is a norm of today. Before this turn in the 21st century things were much different. In…
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WHAT HAPPENED TO TELEVISION?
I remember the days of my older sister and I fighting over the remote for the TV, a battle that I would often lose. During these times, there was one TV in the house, and it sat in the living room. During these times, adverts that would show TVs in bedrooms were a spectacle to…
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WHY THE NAME ‘CHAOS CINEMA’ IS UNFAIR
Explosions, fights, fast love and more explosions are a few of the tropes of high-budget blockbuster franchise films of the 2000s such as Michael Bay’s Transformers. In an attempt to intellectualise such action blockbusters, American academic and culture critic, Steven Shaviro, initially filed these works under ‘post-continuity’ cinema. Stating that post-continuity filmmaking is a style…
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MODU… MO… MODULATION + POST-CINEMA
In chapter 2.2 of Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-century Film (2016) Shaviro describes how ‘modulation’, a technical aspect of ‘post-cinematic’ footage, extends beyond existing as an editing technique and permeates the economic and social segments of cinema. Throughout the chapter, Shaviro, uses the example of Grace Jones’ two-toned music video from 2008 entitled Corporate Cannibal. Jones’ face…
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