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Celebrity Culture · Crime · Digital · Drama · Societal Trends

Bling around the Collar: How Can We Get Rid of This Dirty Ring?

September 25, 2022

The Bling Ring’s impossible challenge for us is to reject the moralizing. We feel superior to the teenagers because of the celebrity issue. The four girls and boy represent our[…]

Covid-19 · Digital · Documentaries · Festivals & Awards · Pandemic · Societal Trends · TV & Streaming · Videos

Dispatch from Tribeca #1 (2022): The YouTube Effect

June 11, 2022

YouTube is a global idea farm, not unlike Big Agriculture: welcome, user, to your pre-fab silo, built “just for you” by YouTube’s secret algorithm. That algorithm loads about 70% of[…]

Digital · Movie Theatres · New Media · TV & Streaming

Movie Theatres: What We Lose in Losing Them

February 26, 2021

Like it or not, we humans are social creatures. We ride waves of communal feeling all the time. If you like sports, consider sitting in the stands with thousands of[…]

Animation · Counterculture · Cyberpunk · Digital · Essays · New Genres

A Brief History of Slip and Failure: Cyberpunk and the Headroom for Nostalgia in Back to the Future

January 18, 2021

In refusing to be neither something different nor more of the same, Back to the Future II’s re-filming technique within the original via new VistaGlide technology offered – rather –[…]

Absurdism · Crime · Digital · Directors · Food

“Will You Be Able to Stomach It?” Haneke’s Food Motif and the Violence of Creation and Consumption in Benny’s Video

July 15, 2020

Rage … Rage, O world and quake Here I stand and sing In perfect calm – “Jesu, mon Freude” by J. S. Bach * * * Consider the pig. Benny[…]

Comedy · Digital · Drama · Youth

Coming of Digital Age: On Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade

August 31, 2018

In Eighth Grade, Burnham recognizes the pre-teen and teen landscape of 2018 is more intense, due to the pervasive influence of cell phones, voyeurism, self-promotion, and the unhealthy expectations brought[…]