The Death of Classical Cinema: Hitchcock, Lang, Minnelli, by Joe McElhaney McElhaney doesn’t really posit a definitive death of classical cinema (one can just imagine how the publishers wanted this…
“In the art cinema, for instance, shifts between ‘objective’ action and ‘subjective’ moments are often not signaled by the narration. This creates a suppressed gap which we retrospectively try to…
“‘The medium is the message’ means that the ostensible content of all electronic media is insignificant; it is the medium itself that has the greater impact on the environment, a…