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What is the best showing of reality in film?
The main area of critique when analysing the post-cinematic form is the claim that indexical media has the best ability to show reality. This is argued for two main reasons. Firstly, its physicality and secondly, its filmmaking techniques. Academics claim the physicality of the 35mm film enables a tether to the real world as the…
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Week 2
Adam McKay’s The Big Short introduce a new way of storytelling. It is consider beyond just the recreation of the 2008 economic crisis. Different from traditional linear storytelling, it has a special way of filming to make all the audience can know the film well. The film uses specially designed way to introduce the difficult…
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Post Cinematic affect discovered through Inland Empire
Written by Ruchir Dey Student No – 33791880 The theory of post cinema marks a change in the way film has been perceived. Denson and Leyda (2016, p.2) describes this change as “engaged in actively reshaping our inherited cultural forms”. With the introduction of new digital technologies like cameras, editing softwares, CGI etc. Audiences and…
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Eega (2012)’s Conquest of Space
By G. Nanthinee Shree The world knows S.S. Rajamouli as the prolific director who made the magnum opus Baahubali (2015) and the Academy Award-winning song “Naatu Naatu” from RRR (2022). Prior to his international acclaim, he made a film that was ahead of its time, dabbling with both special effects and cinematic space long before…
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Joseph Kahn’s Detention as ‘New Media’
By Emma Bogue From time travelling taxidermy bears, to iPod wielding hipsters, Joseph Kahn’s 2011 teen slasher melodrama is a violent, kaleidoscopic assault on the senses saturated with iconic references of 20th century horror and sci-fi. In the early 2010s, digital technology was becoming household, with booming sales for apple and android alike. Naturally, cinema…
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When Reality Isn’t Enough: The Post-Cinematic Spectacle of Marvel’s Avengers
The climactic showdown in “Avengers: Endgame” represents the tenets of post – cinema, causing viewers to experience a deep feeling of mental and emotional overwhelm, and this occurrence was not just evidence of advanced cinematic skills but rather a straight display of post – cinematic aesthetics that questioned the traditional ways of receiving and engaging…
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Netflix: I’m Thinking of Ending Things
I’m Thinking of Ending Things, a 2020 Netflix film, uses jump cuts, subtle character changes, heavily digitized effects, and non-linear storytelling to convey a narrative. The film purposefully tries to make the viewer feel disoriented and respond emotionally to each scene. Time collapses throughout, like when Jake’s parents age by decades in the span of…
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Post Cinema: Twin Peaks
David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: The Return is a classic example of the shift to Shaviro’s post-cinematic theory in film. When the original Twin Peaks series came out in 1990, the show was structured differently than the third season, which was released in 2017. Although the first two seasons are surreal and unpredictable, there is still…
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From Night Rides to World Collapse: Post-Cinema and Chaos in Stranger Things
by Mina Kang (33847161) Across its seasons, Stranger Things increasingly shifts from intimate moments of sensory tension to large-scale spectacles of collapse. This progression can be traced from the bicycle sequence in Season 1 to the recent episodes depicting the violent destabilisation of the Upside Down and its intrusion into Hawkins. While these scenes differ…
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Transition to Digital Cinema with Miami Vice
Written by Ruchir Dey Student no – 33791880 There has been a significant change in the way people make, consume and distribute cinema today. from the days of film to now digital. This is echoed in Rodowick (2015, p.26) suggesting that “By ‘cinema’ I mean the projection of a photographically recorded film strip in a…
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