feeling joy in moments that call for it, gratitude for family and friends and even towards those who said lousy things that once pissed me off—at least they cared enough to say something. I
One thing Dorfman explores inThe Suicide Museumis the ways that exile and return make his view and experience different from the people who could and did stay. I have never been sorry that I had the privilege to live abroad as a kid (not once, but twice), but it also changed me in w...
Will discusses the impact of the web, the internet, social media and the handheld computer (also known as a ‘phone’) on the practice of reading in the 21st century. Drawing on his bookWhy Read: Selected Writings 2001-2021, he’ll present a complex picture of discontinuous adaptation to ...
InHalloween, the tracking shot joins our gaze to that of the killer; inTouch of Evil, our point of view is not through a character’s eyes, but in both movies, the tracking shot reveals to us the truth of the crime. Both movies rely on the framing of image and narrative through the...
The tension between the desire for clarity and the desire to see the fuller picture are in tension, causing us – if we’re not careful – to swing wildly between the two extremes. That one resonated with me, because it’s a very common problem that every leader faces: in a vastly ...
To situate these levels of presence within the general picture of VR, Riva and Waterworth introduced additional dimen-sions of focus, locus, and sensus (Riva, Waterworth & Waterworth, 2004; see also Waterworth & Waterworth, 2001). “Focus can be seen as the degree to which the three ...
“splitting up/going back into the house/not running for help” moments that a viewer can take before they inevitably just stop caring about whether a character lives or dies. That being said, the way The Strangers not just amps up but maintains the tension throughout the picture is nothing...