Category: Film
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Thanks to Aaron Ducksworth, a 2023 Fellow in Ideas, for today’s post. November 10, 2023 Many movies of various genres have been made about the relationship between humans and anthropomorphic technology and the complicated relationship between them – think The Terminator franchise (1984-2019), I, Robot (2004), Virtuosity (1995), and The Matrix franchise (1999-2021). M3GAN is …
March 24, 2023 Thanks to Eden Tesfaslassie, HMU 2022 Fellow in Ideas, for today’s post. In Black Swan, the film utilizes the ballet performance Swan Lake, based on a fairytale, as a frame. The film uses other elements of the fairy tale genre, as evidenced by the character archetypes. The viewer can see characteristics of …
March 17, 2023 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. “[P]erhaps art is not, we might speculate, in the product itself, nor necessarily in the process, but in the impulse.” – Brian Christian from The Most Human Human HMU recently wrapped up the Winter Film Series, which focused on the great idea of …
March 3, 2023 Thanks to Ally Zlatar, a 2023 HMU Fellow in Ideas, for today’s post. Image Credits: Film Still, Miike, T. (Director). (2014). As the Gods Will. Toho. Japanese death game films, also known as ‘Battle Royale’ films, typically depict a scenario where a group of individuals are forced to participate in a deadly …
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February 24, 2023 Thanks to Eden Tesfaslassie, a 2022 Fellow in Ideas, for today’s post. Quintilian said, “the height of art is to conceal art.” In this quote, conceal does not mean to hide away but to be fully immersed. There should be no separation between the art and the experience of the art itself– …
February 3, 2023 Thanks to Chad Greene, a 2023 HMU Fellow in Ideas, for today’s post. The tradition of utopias in imaginative literature – whether in a dialogue by Plato, a comic by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, or a movie by Ryan Coogler – is an attempt to answer some of the most essential …
March 11, 2022 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Last week marked the end of HMU’s Winter Film Series. I cannot express how much I love this series. If you were unable to join us, never fear, we will host another film series next winter. In the meantime, the following thoughts resulted …
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Film Discussion Read More »
February 11, 2022 Thanks to Gabriel E. Etienne, a 2021 Fellow in Ideas recipient, for today’s post. The movie Moonlight is a coming-of-age story that details the complexity of the journey of boyhood to manhood of the character Little/Black/Chiron through the issues of authentic Blackness and hegemonic masculinity (Johnson 2003). This review uses the concepts …
January 7, 2022 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Did you know that Harrison Middleton University presents events that are open to the public as well as students, staff and friends of the University? If you have yet to join one of our conversation opportunities, 2022 is a great time to start. …
August 20, 2021 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. I want to investigate the nature of time using three different sources: The Matrix, the recent Disney show Loki, and Jorge Luis Borges’s “Garden of Forking Paths.” Though very different, these three works embrace the concept of infinite futures. Their conceptualizations, then, allow …
