Starting later this month, I have the privilege with collaborating with my good friend Josh Polanski to lead an online discussion group on Political Documentary. Whether you're familiar with or new to documentary, there's a place for you! More details can be found below:
My latest: An article exploring the peculiar use of superimposition in Twin Peaks: The Return. This piece was first presented at an international conference on the series in 2021, the papers of which are now appearing in this excellent volume. Check it out below!
On our blog, @strpko on Peckinpah's THE WILD BUNCH. See the movie Sat, 3/8, 7pm, 4070 Vilas Hall, 821 University Ave. Free admission! https://t.co/HC5wgm2M9u
I am proud to announce that my latest article, "Reconsidering Mood and Narrative Cinema," is now available in the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism! I could not be happier with how this piece has turned out after many years of development. https://t.co/pL4bhfT3SL
On our blog, @strpko of @uwcommarts discusses Don Hertzfeldt's animated masterpiece, IT'S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY. See it + Hertzfeldt's latest work, ME, Thurs, 9/5, 7pm, 4070 Vilas, 821 University Ave. Free admission! https://t.co/OcVAl7jHgz
Joshua Polanski (@joshuapolanski) has a special supplementary edition of FRITZ ON FRIDAYS this month — an interview on Fritz Lang's Westerns w/ film scholar Garrett Strpko (@strpko). Find their chat at the link below & check out more of Fritz on Fridays!
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On our blog, @strpko of @uwcommarts on Godard's ALPHAVILLE. See new 4K DCP from @RialtoPictures + Godard's PHONY WARS, Sat, 3/30, 7pm, 4070 Vilas, 821 University Ave. Free admission! https://t.co/fdVawpSihq
On our blog, @strpko of @uwcommarts gets in the ring with Scorsese's RAGING BULL, one of the most acclaimed films of the last 50 years. See a 4K DCP, Sat, 12/9, 7pm, 4070 Vilas, 821 University Ave. Admission is free! https://t.co/1VJ4XPs64I
On our blog, @strpko of @uwcommarts writes on the Clint Eastwood gem IN THE LINE OF FIRE, part of our "Cinema in the Shadow of the JFK Assassination" series. See a 35mm print, Sun, 11/12, 2pm @ChazenArtUW. Free admission: https://t.co/Ibd3iqHD0r
Happy to share that 'What Film is Good For', co-edited with Julian Hanich, is hot off the press and will soon be out in the world!
https://t.co/hvGpIR25yB
🚨Our list of contributors and a TOC reveal in the thread below 👇
@ucpress@groningenfilm@FacultyofArtsUG@UFSweb (1/5)
Exciting news: the cover for 'What Film is Good For' is out! Co-edited by Julian Hanich (@groningenfilm) and myself, the volume features thirty-four contributions by some of the finest film thinkers around. Stay tuned for the September 2023 release by @ucpress. More updates soon!
My first ever published article, on how American cultural conceptions of combat trauma impacted the stardom of war hero-turned-actor Audie Murphy, is now up in the Quarterly Review of Film and Video! https://t.co/IYnHjIs0ud