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Inhabiting Animation: Three Films for Reading Scale, Texture and Routine
The Wild Robot, Elio and Mufasa: The Lion King do not make a world inhabitable in the same way. This itinerary asks what bodies, edges, surfaces and tasks do to make a space seem to exist before a character arrives and to continue once they leave.
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28 Years Later: when the future is not enough to measure a sequel’s time
The number in the title announces a chronology, but the film makes it legible in another way: as a culture forced to rebuild its gestures, its stories and its sense of danger. This analysis is limited to documented formal decisions and avoids treating franchise continuity as an automatic explanation.
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Michael Kahn: How to Read an Editing Collaboration Without Making the Editor Invisible
Michael Kahn’s work makes it possible to study editing as a decisive creative practice without treating every cut as proof of an individual signature. The key is not to guess who “made” a scene, but to separate what the screen shows, what the process documents and what can only be framed as a hypothesis.
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Subtitles Are Not Dialogue: How to Spot What Translation Changes in Viewing
Reading a film is not the same as hearing its dialogue transcribed. Subtitles select, arrange and time information within specific limits of space, time and readability; they can therefore alter the rhythm, tone and attention we give to the shot.
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