Archive:film
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On the Intelligent Form by James Caridi-Doyle
In Ex Machina, we see a struggle spin outwards from a central point of knowledge: qualities which would have at one point fallen solely within what might be described as the prescriptive domain of the human Form have begun to fall outside of that domain. When we are presented, through the film, with a robot that demonstrably moves like a human, looks like a human, exhibits the consciousness of a human, and in the very abstract sense feels like a human, we are left to wonder what exactly defines us in a world that holds such possibilities.
Categories: 2023, The Gnovis Blog
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Cuddly Creatures and Cultural Barriers: The Struggles in Showing My Neighbor Totoro to an American Audience
By Michael Wilson The animated film My Neighbor Totoro, made by the internationally acclaimed Studio Ghibli, is a cultural phenomenon in Japan. The film tells the story of two sisters, Satsuki and
Categories: 2019, The Gnovis Blog
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Big Hero and Big Data in the Classroom
Spoiler Alert: This post alludes to important plot points of Big Hero 6! (more…)
Categories: 2014, The Gnovis Blog
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When Fans turn Fanatic: How Virtual Communities are Taking Over the Web
Note: This is a continuation of my last blog post, on the culture surrounding the young-adult book craze. [caption id="attachment_5590" align="alignleft" width="300"] Two worlds collide: Hunger Games
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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Harry, Bella, Peeta and Katniss: The Crossover Fiction Phenomenon
The Hunger Games movie was released on March 21st, and has already made over 300 million dollars in box office sales in North America alone. It also broke the record for first-day advanced ticket sa
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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The Perils of Adaptation
The hype surrounding the Hunger Games series and the first of four film adaptations (they're making the last novel into two films, à la Harry Potter and Twilight) leading up to this past weekend's re
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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Music in the Past and Present
I never delete music. My constantly burgeoning music collection is saved from becoming overwhelming thanks to a highly selective addition process, but by the time I die I will likely have more music
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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Every Movie Is A Montage
Soviet Russian film director and theorist Sergei Eisenstein is the father of montage. He is best known for creating one of the most memorable moments in cinema history: the heart-wrenching "Odessa St
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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Sequelitis at the American Box Office
In 2011, for the second year in a row, the American domestic box office declined. It dropped almost $400 million, the steepest yearly drop since 2005, and attendance numbers were the lowest they’ve
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog