[First published on Switchcam’s Posterous blog on 3.9.2012] Somewhere from the deep sea of Youtube musicians, Lana Del Rey emerged from a shell carried forth to the shore of pop consciousness by homemade music video froth. That’s about as accurate a narrative as the one Interscope wove for her, since they’re sticking to the trailer […]
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[This is taken from my Master’s thesis: “Film and Social Change: Comparing Documentaries to Narratives”] The differences among proper documentaries and its numerous “docufiction” hybrid cousins, such as ‘docu-soup’ or ‘docudrama’, which adopt certain documentary forms, are however indistinct and increasingly difficult to tease apart (Mast, 2009, p.233). For instance, another trend in the television […]
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[First published in Cliché Magazine on 7.3.2011] Listening to Bon Iver’s Bon Iver is an activity comparable to lying in the grass of a vast garden replete with brightly colored flowers. Patches of crimson, and marigold, and periwinkle, and violet, and peach on grassy beds, verdant and luscious with dew. On a gently sunny day, with a cloud or two […]
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