Hi, everyone. I created a survey based on the Barbie movie for my graduate research seminar college course. If you have the time/ have seen the movie, please help my research and take the survey- Thank you!!!

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I saw it screenshotted on film twitter a while ago from a book or essay of some film theorist, generally about cinema tacitly addressing libidinal drive’s that society/modernity asks us to repress, the passage was something like “The shop girl goes to the cinema to experience precisely what she cannot in her own life — and further, so that she does not have to”. Does anybody know what text this is from? I would give tha moon…..

Hi there, I am writing an essay on the complicated use of subjective camera and its relation to a first-person mode of narrative (in Battleship Potemkin), and was just curious if anyone knew of any relevant literature on this topic? Even just passing comments or mentions in texts would suffice, just looking to deepen my knowledge on the subject. Thanks

Hello all! So I picked up screenwriting as a hobby about two years back and have come to love it. It's been a fun outlet for me, I've even entered a few contests and done well. However, I've reached a point now I crave a deeper understanding of film and the ability to analyze the work of others.

I've taken a stab at writing reviews, but have realized that I often parrot what I've heard from online video essayists instead of forming my own opinions/having my own voice. Nuances/deeper meanings often go over my head, and when they're pointed out to me later I get disheartened for not being able to pick them up on my own.

So with that said, does anyone have any book recommendations for me to help my sharpen my abilities? Film Art: An Introduction is at the top of my list, but am open to other suggestions.

Aside from books, any general advice would be appreciated too. Thanks!

Hello all, I recently began my first semester at college going for a cinema and screen studies degree. I’m a few weeks in and loving it so far.

I’m on my second paper for Intro to Cinema class and I must admit I am struggling with the concepts of realism vs. formalism vs. classicism in films. We are tasked to view Buster Keaton’s Sherlock Jr., as well as Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid, and discuss how they relate to these topics.

We have gone over these terms in class, however I’m simply looking for a little more help when it comes to identifying and defining these terms. Any help is very much appreciated. Thank you!

I'm doing a research trying to map the universe of video essay online any suggestions?

I think Tarantino framed these movies identically. The obvious is the opening scenes where each protagonist rides an airport conveyor belt, yet the endings seem remarkably similar too. Jackie Brown, like Benjamin, stare off into the camera a little too long and it creates a much more uneasy tone to end the films. Through dragging out these conclusions both directors completely changed the resolution of their movies to be much more ambiguous and honestly—sad.

When I was 18, I did film studies A-level. I wasn't in the right headspace at all, it was completely lost on me. I didn't even like movies. But I loved the theory. I remember touching on the Bible, Greek mythology, and other things just for a scene in Terminator.

Regardless, my relationship with movies is still rubbish and I'm slowly changing that. Watch a movie almost every night, read a few reviews from RT, search the movie and other keywords in Google Scholar (and I sometimes write a blog post about it - I'm not linking the blog as it might be considered spam, and besides it's not that big of a deal)

Are there any film critics, blogs, books... that you would recommend that don't just give you a summary, but also not just film shooting/editing, but analysis?