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Film analysis

The study of film.

The academic field of film analysis. A real trove of nuanced interesting thought (I say this unironically), with a healthy amount of baseless self-important pedantry so that it feels like a real academic field.

See list of film analysis papers I've read

Pages that link here:

Category - Film
The craft and study of film

tables and lists
Tables and lists of things

cinematic waves
[ Category - Film ][ Film analysis ] A wave is a cinematic movement with common themes, techniques, or theories

film theory
When you write about film, it's called film theory

Towards a positive Definition of World Cinema
[ Film analysis ] In this essay, which is actually a chapter of the book Remapping World Cinema: Identity, Culture and Politics in Film, Lúcia Nagib puts forward the idea that 1) using the term “world cinema” as the Other from Hollywood is reductive and wrong, and 2) tries to reclaim the term “world cinema” to actually mean the world

Gilles Deleuze
[ Category - Philosophy ] A film theorist and philospher, Deleuze had much to say about our world

Catered to Your Future Self
[ Film analysis ] Paper: Catered to Your Future Self: Netflix’s “Predictive Personalization” and the Mathematization of Taste Author: Neta Alexander Discussion on taste

On demand culture
[ Film analysis ] In this paper, which is a chapter of the book On deman culture Chuck Tyron lays out the idea of the “Make any room your TV room”

cinema is centerless and originless
[ Film analysis ][ Atomic Note ] From Towards a positive Definition of World Cinema, this is the idea that cinema has existed forever, and is in essence centerless and without a true starting point

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