Eyebrow Cinema | The Decay of Cinema @EyebrowCinema | Uploaded March 2021 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
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In his recent essay Il Maestro, Martin Scorsese critiqued our modern media culture, where movies are little more than content and algorithms drive film exhibition. Salient though his words are, Scorsese is not the first to lament cinematic loss. This video essay puts Scorsese in conversation with Susan Sontag's 1996 essay The Decay of Cinema and probes deeper into what exactly is lost in the movie from cinema to content, and why cinephilia is worth fighting for.
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Filmography: letterboxd.com/pgcooper/list/the-decay-of-cinema-filmography
Works Cited:
The Decay of Cinema. 1996. Susan Sontag. - nytimes.com/1996/02/25/magazine/the-decay-of-cinema.html
Il Maestro. 2021. Martin Scorsese - harpers.org/archive/2021/03/il-maestro-federico-fellini-martin-scorsese
The Movie Vampire reviews A Sun. 2021. - letterboxd.com/themovievampire/film/a-sun
Film Review: A Sun. 2020. Peter Debruge. - variety.com/2019/film/reviews/a-sun-review-yang-guang-pu-zhao-1203394389
The Best Films of 2020. 2020. Peter Debruge and Owen Gleiberman. - variety.com/lists/best-movies-2020-streaming
Netflix Will Keep ‘Friends’ Through Next Year in a $100 Million Agreement. 2018. Edmund Lee. - nytimes.com/2018/12/04/business/media/netflix-friends.html
‘The Office’ was always popular. But Netflix made it a phenomenon. 2019. Sonia Rao. - washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/06/26/office-was-always-popular-netflix-made-it-phenomenon
Music Featured:
Both Flanks by Small Colin
Fragmented Pianos by Mikael Lind
Setup with an E by Small Colin
Hello Michael! by Loyalty Freak Music
Carnival by smallertide
Janie's Theme by Sacred Ape
More Eyebrow Cinema:
Hierarchies of Violence in The Shining - youtu.be/tMw2YWOBeoM
Star Wars Can't Move On - youtu.be/ESWgz-lcUuE
Movie Theaters and the Value of Inconvenience - youtu.be/uZdl9D7NWBI
How Terence Young Made James Bond - youtu.be/2sTt_nkgGFE
What is the Appeal of Friday the 13th - youtu.be/mpy8n853EKE
The Indifference of The Birds - youtu.be/p2Q0N0kjazc
Dawn of the Dead and the Happy Consumer - youtu.be/30oSBlZyjg0
Inception and The Dreamer - youtu.be/ZeQzJW6IBs8
The Curious Case of Forrest and Benjamin - youtu.be/gWAg1suGwnM
Fan Entitlement and the Quick Fix - youtu.be/OWflw2xzGWY
Summer with Monika - Breaking the Fourth Wall - youtu.be/pMK5giTO1xc
Learning to Love Batman Returns - youtu.be/J9v9bC3R9oA
The Apartment and How to Write Movies Good - youtu.be/ImF4-YbPh8g
Silent Films are Like Hard Liquor: A Guide to Silent Movies - youtu.be/hwcY20J2kJg
Night of the Living Dead and the Prison of Intent - youtu.be/uo0CUDdi1ow
Once Upon a Time in the West - Setting the Stage - youtu.be/yYpp_UTGA9I
Indiana Jones - The Face of Jewish Vengeance - youtu.be/dVZg5j8vg70
The Citizen Kane Effect and the Rashomon Test - youtu.be/0gkCJORqegQ
Barry Lyndon - The Unworthy Protagonist - youtu.be/hSXoNYzguqI
Support me on Patreon: patreon.com/eyebrowcinema
In his recent essay Il Maestro, Martin Scorsese critiqued our modern media culture, where movies are little more than content and algorithms drive film exhibition. Salient though his words are, Scorsese is not the first to lament cinematic loss. This video essay puts Scorsese in conversation with Susan Sontag's 1996 essay The Decay of Cinema and probes deeper into what exactly is lost in the movie from cinema to content, and why cinephilia is worth fighting for.
Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/danpgsimpson
Filmography: letterboxd.com/pgcooper/list/the-decay-of-cinema-filmography
Works Cited:
The Decay of Cinema. 1996. Susan Sontag. - nytimes.com/1996/02/25/magazine/the-decay-of-cinema.html
Il Maestro. 2021. Martin Scorsese - harpers.org/archive/2021/03/il-maestro-federico-fellini-martin-scorsese
The Movie Vampire reviews A Sun. 2021. - letterboxd.com/themovievampire/film/a-sun
Film Review: A Sun. 2020. Peter Debruge. - variety.com/2019/film/reviews/a-sun-review-yang-guang-pu-zhao-1203394389
The Best Films of 2020. 2020. Peter Debruge and Owen Gleiberman. - variety.com/lists/best-movies-2020-streaming
Netflix Will Keep ‘Friends’ Through Next Year in a $100 Million Agreement. 2018. Edmund Lee. - nytimes.com/2018/12/04/business/media/netflix-friends.html
‘The Office’ was always popular. But Netflix made it a phenomenon. 2019. Sonia Rao. - washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/06/26/office-was-always-popular-netflix-made-it-phenomenon
Music Featured:
Both Flanks by Small Colin
Fragmented Pianos by Mikael Lind
Setup with an E by Small Colin
Hello Michael! by Loyalty Freak Music
Carnival by smallertide
Janie's Theme by Sacred Ape
More Eyebrow Cinema:
Hierarchies of Violence in The Shining - youtu.be/tMw2YWOBeoM
Star Wars Can't Move On - youtu.be/ESWgz-lcUuE
Movie Theaters and the Value of Inconvenience - youtu.be/uZdl9D7NWBI
How Terence Young Made James Bond - youtu.be/2sTt_nkgGFE
What is the Appeal of Friday the 13th - youtu.be/mpy8n853EKE
The Indifference of The Birds - youtu.be/p2Q0N0kjazc
Dawn of the Dead and the Happy Consumer - youtu.be/30oSBlZyjg0
Inception and The Dreamer - youtu.be/ZeQzJW6IBs8
The Curious Case of Forrest and Benjamin - youtu.be/gWAg1suGwnM
Fan Entitlement and the Quick Fix - youtu.be/OWflw2xzGWY
Summer with Monika - Breaking the Fourth Wall - youtu.be/pMK5giTO1xc
Learning to Love Batman Returns - youtu.be/J9v9bC3R9oA
The Apartment and How to Write Movies Good - youtu.be/ImF4-YbPh8g
Silent Films are Like Hard Liquor: A Guide to Silent Movies - youtu.be/hwcY20J2kJg
Night of the Living Dead and the Prison of Intent - youtu.be/uo0CUDdi1ow
Once Upon a Time in the West - Setting the Stage - youtu.be/yYpp_UTGA9I
Indiana Jones - The Face of Jewish Vengeance - youtu.be/dVZg5j8vg70
The Citizen Kane Effect and the Rashomon Test - youtu.be/0gkCJORqegQ
Barry Lyndon - The Unworthy Protagonist - youtu.be/hSXoNYzguqI
