Daniel Morgan
I’ve been trying to develop a way of thinking about film, and other audiovisual media, in which form is both necessary and primary.
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The Persistence of Formalism
Scott C. Richmond
In U.S. colleges and universities, just about every intro to film class takes, under the juggernaut force of “Bordwell and Thompson,” a finely articulated, explicitly formalist approach to the movies.
Religion and Narrative Form
John Paul Spiro
Whenever one expresses a preference about a work of literature[1]—and criticism, even when it damns, is an expression of one’s preference to discuss this rather than that—one cannot help but reveal one’s ideological commitments.