Commentary by Kendall Whitehouse
Author: Kendall Whitehouse
To no one's surprise, the highest-grossing movie this weekend was Marvel Studios' The Avengers, which brought in over $200 million in the U.S. While nothing is ever certain in Hollywood -- even a big-budget, effects-laden production can underperform (as Marvel parent Disney found out with John Carter) -- The Avengers seemed destined to generate a box … Continue reading Media Marketing and the Evolution of Narrative Structure
Bruce Springsteen, March 29, 2012 In the introduction to his song Jack of All Trades last Thursday at Philadelphia's Wells Fargo Center, Bruce Springsteen noted---as he had on previous nights---that the song was penned before the explosion of the current debate about the 99% versus the 1%. "I wrote this when there was no Occupy Movement, … Continue reading Lyrical Resonance, Reinterpretation, and Renewal
The essays in Errol Morris's recent book Believing Is Seeing (Observations on the Mysteries of Photography) explore a series of mysteries, each based on one or more photographs. Writer and documentary filmmaker (The Thin Blue Line, The Fog of War, Tabloid) Morris uses the photos as the starting point for explorations of what the photos … Continue reading Seeing Is Believing – or Is It the Other Way Around?
Before Captain America was the star of last summer's blockbuster movie, he was a comic book superhero. The man who co-created the character over 70 years ago, comic book writer and artist Joe Simon, passed away this past Wednesday in New York. Two months earlier, Simon spoke at New York Comic Con, a convention for … Continue reading Joe Simon and the Great American Hero
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