Max Tohline is assistant professor of art and film at Missouri University of Science and Technology. His research focuses on the ideological consequences of the plasticity of time in film, in particular the history and aesthetics of reverse motion and editing practices outside classical narrativity. He posts video essays and experimental stuff at 
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Tracking Mass Ideology on IMDb’s Top 250: How Shifts in Societal Values Appear in the Popular Film Canon
No film on the list embodies a retreat into populist myth as totally or as troublingly as Forrest Gump (1994). Though critically and popularly lauded at its release (winning the[…]
