The Marvelization of Cinema

Help me make more videos! About this video essay: We've all felt it: the movies have changed. But how so exactly, and why? And what can be done about it? In this extensive critique, I try to capture the decline of modern cinema in one unifying theory. 00:00 The Marvelization of Cinema 01:52 What is...

37 min - Film & Pop Culture - Like Stories of Old

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