film
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Keanu Reeves and the Future of Martial Arts Cinema
I am a fan of Keanu Reeves. The Bill and Ted movies and cartoons were a childhood favorite. Speed blew my mind, and I’ll never forget that movie’s score. I walked out of The Devil’s Advocate (I was way too young and should have never been allowed in that theater in the first place!). And…
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THE FLOWERS OF WAR: A Non-Review
…or, The Eternal Burden of Chinese Cinema The other day I finally got around to watching Zhang Yimou’s The Flowers of War. It was alright. Christian Bale and Chinese movies are pretty high up on my list of favorite things, so the film didn’t have to try very hard to keep me interested. There are…
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On Historicizing Chinese Cinema
I recently read Lucy Montgomery’s China’s Creative Industries: Copyright, Social Network Markets and the Business of Culture in a Digital Age (2010). The book traces China’s shift from state-controlled cultural production and consumption to the rise of what she dubs “entrepreneurial consumers” in the country. What I really liked about this book was its treatment…
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The Rise and Fall of the Film Geek?
Before I get into what I want to get into, I need to mention something I forgot to bring up in the last post. I want to thank Anne Helen Petersen. Not only for her fantastic blog or Twitter feed, but also, most recently, her great piece in Frames on the need for a media studies makeover.…
Munib Rezaie, PhD 