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Modifications in Cinematic Stances: The Post-Cinematic Affect
Internet television is the breakpoint that the entertainment industry was waiting for! Digital media has surpassed the cinematic era and introduced the latest technologies in the world of entertainment. The post-cinematic effects include not only the newer techniques but also refer to the continuity of the older ones. Some even refer to cinema as the…
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Microfilms: A movie in a reel. Thanks, Instagram
When Instagram first took stage in 2010, it was a revolutionary platform, designed just for sharing photos with minimal write-ups so your friends and family could follow your life. Yes, you could do it on Facebook as well, but having something so specifically catered to one niche of social media changed the game completely. Instagram…
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Digital Technology Building New Realities
Digital technology has taken over as the dominant force in the film industry. Many associate digital technology with cinema, yet several film theorists experienced an identity crisis as a result of the switch from analogue to digital mediums. Most film theorists in the 20th century started out with the presumption that photography has a special…
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The death and resurrection of chaos cinema in Bollywood, India
Chaos Cinema has taken over movies over the last few decades. It is a never-ending crescendo of flair and spectacle. It’s a shotgun aesthetic, firing a wide swath of sensationalistic techniques that tears the old classical filmmaking style to bits (Steven Shaviro, 2016). Movies franchises like Fast and Furious, Marvel & DC Comics, Need for…
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Those ‘Strange’ but ‘Interesting’ Videos, YouTube Aesthetic
The three founders of YouTube had no idea at the time of its creation that a video-sharing platform originally created for an online dating service would later have such an impact on society and the market. YouTube is the second most visited website and now owned by Google, it has expanded from a website to…
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Modern Family: Pioneering queer representation on TV
Speaking about the representation of LGBTQIA+ on the big and small screen, it would be extremely unfair to miss out on one of the pioneers of it – Modern Family. The show started out in 2009, at a time when people were still familiarising themselves with the queer community. That included the writers of Modern…
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Kendrick Lamar’s N95: A post-cinematic visual masterclass
“Don’t you address me unless it’s with four letters.” Revolutionary in every sense of the word, Kendrick Lamar is inarguably one of the greatest ever to grace hip-hop. Honestly, there is every reason for him to call himself the G.O.A.T., The King, and much more. However, after his incredible 2017 release of DAMN., Kendrick took…
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Breaking The Fourth Wall
Post-cinema can be defined as the way in which ‘21st-century media help to shape and reflect new forms of sensibility” (Denson and Leyda, 2016). It moves with the times, relaying on technological advances, as well as economic, political, and social changes that are affecting the current society. With the introduction of Post-Cinema there has been…
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What are you bingeing at the moment?
We are all guilty of bingeing every once in a while, maybe you are feeling burnt out from your day-to-day responsibilities and want to relax, or perhaps you are trying to catch up with the show all your friends keep talking about before someone spoils it? There are many reasons as to why we binge…
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I’ve Been Twelve Forever
The documentary ‘Ive been twelve forever’ (2004) explores the work of Michel Gondry, known for his music videos that transport the viewers into an unknown reality created through the use of editing techniques, such as manipulating footage, stop motion animations, and ‘long take’ filming as seen in ‘Lucas With The lid Off’ (1994) music video,…
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