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film theorist is a person who studies and analyzes movies to understand their artistic, cultural, and social significance. They examine various elements of a film, such as storytelling techniques, cinematography, and themes, to provide insights and interpretations about its meaning and impact.
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Sentences with «film theorist»
- '' I intended this piece as both playful and serious: it looks like an adult sex toy, but it is also a serious comment on patriarchy, and the objectification of the female body in the media, by what film theorist Laura Mulvey called the «male gaze». (themultiplestore.org)
- The repetition of shots — what film theorist David Bordwell refers to as «planimetric shots,» faces isolated in the frame, buildings filmed head - on, the camera unmoving and observant — insinuate a life of tedium, devoid of variety. (slantmagazine.com)
- Other notable speakers of the season are British feminist film theorist and seminal voice on film and media studies, Laura Mulvey; writer and professor of psychology and gender studies, Lynne Segal; and Catherine Wood, Senior Curator of Performing Art at Tate, writer of Yvonne Rainer: The Mind is a Muscle (2007) and curator of Yvonne Rainer: Dance Works 1961 — 72 at Raven Row in London in 2014. (candidmagazine.com)
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