

Post-Golden Era of Media: Art Reflecting Life Reflecting Art
A wave of new Post-Golden-Era content would flourish and flood all aspects of distribution and social/digital media. Pros and cons parallel


How to Differentiate Authenticity and Falsehoods in Today's News.
The Fall of the Fourth-Estate Pt.2: A Re-examination Of Modernized Media Outlets Credibility Direction and production dictate what the...

Where Is The Real News?
The Fall of the Fourth-Estate Pt.1: Continuous Degradation of Media’s Credibility Pyramid “Fake News” plays an ironic part of modern...


The Death of Celebrity, Film, and Passive Media (Part 1: Internet Issues)
Performers are a classical tradition of entertainment culture, consumerism, and fundamental aspects of primary celebrity status. Charlie...


Falling Upwards A.K.A. Happy Accidents
Mortality is a weird pragmatic joke when it comes to brief periods of chaos. Eight months of gray ice at Middlebury College led to a...


The Death of Objectivity
Two central points are necessary to understand how the practice of realism in cinema was created, fostered and improved upon endlessly:...


Constructed Realism and The Death of Objectivity // Pt. 2: Weaponize Realism
A neo-realistic presentation of a father’s journey to save his job, The Bicycle Thieves (1948) manufactures and executes realism...

Constructed Realism and The Death of Objectivity // Pt. 1: Origins
Reality is only so real when it comes to film.


Spectacle Versus Narrative: Modern Day Celebrity
Have our societal ideas on celebrity warped our entire understand of our own lives? What can we do as an audience? Social media and it's