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Jake Ivan Dole

I study narrative theory, film theory and cognition, especially pertaining to matters of spatiality and sensory-motor orientation. My current research preoccupations are with contemporary Hollywood cinema trends in generating embodied cues and effects and the ways in which they can be understood in historical terms.
09Nov

Motor resonance and the Hollywood spectacle

by Jake Ivan Dole in Forum | 1 Comment
In Has Hollywood Murdered The Movies? film critic David Denby decries the state of the Hollywood mainstream where, in his opinion, big-budget spectacle films have become loud, pointless, “defoliated of […]
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