There are various techniques that can soften the fear factor of a scary film: from talking about it to providing facts that contextualise the plotline.
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Netflix and the like are already big business, but here’s why British film should focus more on Chinese subscription services
The gap between the idea for a film and it reaching its final audience has never been so small.
To some, superhero films are the equivalent of fracking. But they offer audiences transcendence, mystery, a moral compass, and even the hope of salvation.
For a man who was “not really a Jew”, Kubrick’s feature films are woven with Jewish references.
Throughout its history, the Academy Awards has picked some questionable winning films. But there are signs the Oscars are more often recognizing quality filmmaking.
Sometimes a work of art is characterized by a string of failures, but nonetheless ends up being a gorgeous freak accident of nature.
Why did most fans shun the prequel series, but embrace the recent spate of ‘Star Wars’ films? A recent study offers some clues.
This is what it’s like going to the cinema when you can’t see the screen.
From the good to the bad, to the downright scary.
There’s no time like the present for a new Blade Runner.
What will the future of film look like?
This year’s Toronto International Film Festival is a further example of how science, technology, engineering and math illuminate movies – and, in the process, our minds.
As the animated film ‘Bambi’ celebrates its 75th anniversary, a reminder that humans often try to express reality. But once they do, they go back to making art.
Films motivate people to travel to locations previously unknown. In the process, tourists become a lot like spiritual seekers.
Romero’s ‘Night of the Living Dead’ and ‘Dawn of the Dead’ will be remembered among the first films to use horror as a form of political critique.
The Star Wars saga is interlinked with its merchandising success.
Zoolander 2, anyone?
If you want to know who’s going to win the Oscars, your best bet is the bookmakers.
The Twilight star used a pioneering technique for turning videos into animations which resemble stylised paintings.
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Professor of Film Studies, Bangor University
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Senior Lecturer in Film, University of Roehampton
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Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Lecturer in Contextual and Critical Studies for Visual Effects and Motion Graphics, University of South Wales
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Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Film, Loughborough University
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Professor in Digital Arts, Royal Holloway University of London
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Professor of Religious Studies and Cinema and Media Studies, by special appointment, Hamilton College
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Senior Lecturer in Creative & Cultural Industries, De Montfort University
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Senior Lecturer, Journalism and Digital Communication, University of Central Lancashire
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Professor of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law, Queen's University Belfast
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Regents Professor of Law and Communication and Director of the Center for Law and Intellectual Property, Texas A&M University
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Professor of History, Director of the Honors Program, Calvin University
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Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
