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Awake Without a Before: Severance and the Cold Aesthetics of Post-Continuity
The opening scene of Severance (2022) functions as a quiet manifesto for post-continuity television. Before we understand Lumon, severance, or even who Helly is, the series places us inside a body that wakes without context. The clip’s power lies not in narrative exposition but in affect: disorientation, confinement, and the uncanny sense of being present…
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The Post-Cinematic Thrill of Marty Supreme
Shaviro (2011) argues that traditional cinema is ‘surpassed’ by post-cinema, which isn’t just about cooler effects or better technology, it actually changes how the audience feels when they watch films. Post-cinema uses things like digital editing, special effects, and simulation to create new kinds of images. In class we explored how post-cinema creates discontinuous, non-representational…
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Post Cinema: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) immerses the viewer within a memory, and creates a fractured timeline. The film’s entirety darts between dreams, flashbacks, imagined futures, and the present day. Joel, who undergoes memory erasure, acts as a portal between conscious and unconscious worlds; his mind is the epicenter of the story’s…
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Conductors of intensity: Meisner, affect, and the digital present
Following our exploration of digital modularity, week two shifts toward the sensory “structure of feeling” that defines the post-cinematic era. As Steven Shaviro argues, we must distinguish between personalised “emotion”-the psychological clarity of classical cinema seen in Mildred Pierce (1945)-and “affect,” which is a pre-personal, physical intensity that hits the nervous system before conscious thought.…
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Post-Continuity and Affect in Mad Max: Fury Road
By: Jimena Inda George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) exemplifies the post-cinematic regime theorised by Steven Shaviro, William Brown, Scott Bukatman, D.N. Rodowick and Patricia Pisters. Shaped by digital technology, the film shifts from classical narrative coherence to affective modulation, privileging speed, intensity and bodily sensation over representational realism or spatial-temporal logic. Shaviro’s post-continuity…
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The Affect of Repetition: Source Code’s Post-Cinematic Rhythms
By Lauren Perera Duncan Jones’s Source Code (2011) combines a high concept sci-fi thriller plot with a form that feels distinctly post-cinematic. The film follows Captain Colter Stevens, a U.S. Army pilot who wakes up inside the body of a stranger on a commuter train just minutes before a bomb is set to explode. He…
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Source Code and the Post Cinematic Affect
By Parul OhriWho amongst us has not wished they could go back in time just for a few minutes, and set something right, meet someone once more, say what was left unsaid? Now, what if you got a chance to do all this for a grand window of 8 minutes…but you were clinically dead? That,…
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Reality and Simulation in Ready Player One: A Post-Cinematic Perspective
In Ready Player One (2018), the narrative constantly switches between two spaces: one is the dystopian real world in which Wade Watts is located, and the other is the virtual space where he assumes an active, empowered role in the OASIS. This repeated movement between reality and simulation profoundly shapes the viewing experience. Although the…
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Mulholland Drive and The Power of Affect
Ever watch a film and felt completely unsettling, even if you couldn’t explain the plot at all? That’s what Steven Shaviro calls ‘post-cinematic affect.’ In a world filled with digital screens and excessive editing, films have shifted from telling stories to creating ‘vibes’. Shaviro argues that we aren’t just looking at images differently, we’re feeling…
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