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Continue reading →: Subnautica: A Modern Robinsonadegroup project submission, created by group leader Kevin YUniversity of Chicago MADD 25630: Games, Rules, Stories, GenresSpring 2020
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Continue reading →: The Expiration of Time and Love: Analyzing Speed of Motion in Wong Kar-Wai’s Chungking Expressby Meagan J, Emily N, Dylan K, Joalda M, and Haina LUniversity of Chicago CMST 10100: Intro to FilmSpring 2020 California Dreamin’-The Mama’s and the Papa’s (to supplement your reading) The Chase The context in which Wong Kar-Wai actually made Chungking Express is interesting to note as it relates to the techniques he uses to alter…
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Continue reading →: A Look Into Parasite‘s Decorby Zach C, Meagan J, Dylan K, Gabriela H, and Alan CUniversity of Chicago CMST 10100: Intro to FilmSpring 2020 Position of the Houses: How it Reflects a Class Struggle Kim House The Kim house is below ground in a busy and cluttered area of poor families with people disrespecting their home (including a couple…
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Continue reading →: Blog Re-organization for Online TeachingIan here— Just a quick heads-up that I’m doing some minor re-organization to this blog in response to the shift to remote learning this quarter at UChicago. It’s not exactly unusual to see student posts on this blog, but now they’ll be accompanied by a swath of asynchronous video lectures I’ve been putting together. It’s…
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Continue reading →: HER STORY Complete TranscriptIan here, cooped up during the shelter-in-place order and busy prepping for this quarter’s classes. So I did that thing again, where I’m preparing to teach and/or critically analyze a game, make a guide for myself, and I figure I might as well put it online for public consumption. This time, it’s a complete transcript…
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Continue reading →: Too Rigged to FailA belated third entry in my video series on detective games. The pace of these has been slow, but I’m going to have to step it up, as these are intimately related to course prep for a course I’m teaching in the Spring term of 2020. Script below the jump.
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Continue reading →: MacpocalypseIan here— For years now, I’ve wanted to update the section of my site devoted to games that can be easily integrated into syllabi. I was laying low until the firehose of my students’ work turned off, but I figured since I’m teaching another games-related course in Spring 2020 it would be a good time…
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Continue reading →: Animation as a Tool for Expression: Examining the Original and Live Action Lion KingBy Charlie D University of Chicago CMST 14400: Film and the Moving Image Autumn 2019 Prominent film theorists and filmmakers disagree about the role of animation in cinema, with the philosopher Stanley Cavell claiming that “cartoons are not movies” (Frank 24), a stark contrast with educator Hannah Frank’s conjecture that “all works of celluloid animation…
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Continue reading →: Inside Bresson’s Truth: Cinematic Life In A Man Escaped (1956)by Ivy RUniversity of Chicago CMST 14400: Film and the Moving ImageAutumn 2019 It is often said of Bresson that his films, through their mechanical nature, their minimalist approach to their presentation of human emotion and experience, portray more passion and depth than could be achieved by “showier” directors. Bresson expresses this as one of…
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Continue reading →: Color in Spider-man: Into the Spiderverseby Nick NUniversity of Chicago CMST 14400: Film and the Moving ImageAutumn 2019 Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse is a superhero film that tries to emulate the experience of reading a superhero comic book. The film moves away from the live-action superhero paradigm and fills the screen with bold colors, halftoned graphics, and word-boxes that one…
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Continue reading →: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, A Masterclass in the Intersection of Sound and Animationby Aditya TUniversity of Chicago CMST 14400: Film and the Moving ImageAutumn 2019 Spider-Man: Into the Spider Verse hit cinemas with a storm in late 2018 as movie-goers of all ages came together to watch a new kind of Spider-Man film; not just because of the biracial protagonist, the presence of multiple spider-(wo)men, or the flawless…
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Continue reading →: Spirited Away and ‘the Erotics of Art’by Rami KUniversity of Chicago CMST 14400: Film and the Moving ImageAutumn 2019 Hansel and Gretel is a story that remains with me from my childhood. It was the fairy tale my mother repeated to me most often, with my sticky fingers and penchant for lying. Even as a second grader, the thought of a…
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Continue reading →: A Brief Visual History of Virtual Realityby Charlie GUniversity of Chicago CMST 14400: Film and the Moving ImageAutumn 2019 I began trying to understand virtual reality (VR) by looking at its early history. This clarified how VR came to be; however, it left me with more questions than when I started. Chief among them was how to define VR. For this,…
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Continue reading →: Immersion: How Punchdrunk Moves Youby Ivy RUniversity of Chicago CMST 14400: Film and the Moving ImageAutumn 2019 Punchdrunk is best described as an immersive theatrical experience. It is structured as follows: spectators enter an abandoned warehouse or office space or other such nondescript building, dressed all alike and wearing masks which obscure their whole faces – they are instructed…
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Continue reading →: Photography in Cel Animationby Niky C University of Chicago CMST 14400: Film and the Moving Image Autumn 2019 Though used rarely today, celluloid animation has brought us many cartoons and animated movie classics, such as the Looney Tunes series by Warner Bros, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by Walt Disney Productions, or the first 13 seasons of…
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Continue reading →: Michel Chion’s Soundscapesby Charlie DUniversity of Chicago CMST 14400: Film and the Moving ImageAutumn 2019 The majority of meaning in film is derived from association. Whether this association is present in the form of the eyeline effect or the Kuleshov effect, no larger message can exist without relying on the audience’s ability to join elements in their…
