Cinema

The essay explores cinema's 'mysterious characters'—figures whose opacity resists even patient observation—arguing that withholding creates gaps that transform viewers into co-authors of character.

Given by Ida, I'm not Madame Bovary, The Favorite

Eisenstein the Tailor

The most elusive topic in film aesthetics has almost no scholarship behind it. A lecture that builds a working theory of camera movement from scratch.

...but didn’t know how to ask

There are films that talk a lot; and there are films talk a little. But finally, there are films that don’t talk at all. Is talking essential to cinema?

Film director is called metteur-en-scène because his or her primary role is staging

My dissertation, resurrected for its ten years publication anniversary

A case study of camera movement in Max Ophuls — moving past style-spotting toward a theory that reads the moving camera as artistic sensibility.

Emotion, memory and senses are inseparable. One always evokes the other. This seemingly innocuous statement in fact leads to cinema’s greatest potential.

“We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.” — Marshall McLuhan