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Mar 2, 20237 minWomen Film Directors: Taking InventoryThese days we regularly hear it said that women are a small percentage of the people hired to direct films, at least big budget high...
Feb 21, 20235 minHow We Use Categories to Understand ArtWhen I teach film theory, I divide the course into sections. One of them is called Categorizing Films. In it, we discuss some of the...
Feb 7, 20239 minStreet Children: Notes for a History of A Film Genre I think it was Luis Buñuel who, with his film Los Olvidados (Mexico, 1950), invented the genre of film that exposes the plight of...