Get past the pretentious preamble, and this film journal illuminates the big-screen
The world of film academia can often seem remote – as divorced from mainstream film culture as the magical forest kingdom of Terabithia is from human society in the classic 1977 children’s book Bridge To Terabithia, and its two film adaptations. And yet Terabithia, as distant as it may seem, is in fact readily accessible to those willing to leave the safety of earthly civilisation behind and rope-swing across a creek to the magical treehouse beyond which it lies.
As it turns out, film academia is just as easy to access, only its rope swing is the blossoming medium of the video essay and its treehouse is [in]Transition, the world’s first peer-reviewed academic journal of “videographic film and moving image studies”. Don’t let the big words put you off: behind the scholarly jargon, [in]Transition is a treasure...
The world of film academia can often seem remote – as divorced from mainstream film culture as the magical forest kingdom of Terabithia is from human society in the classic 1977 children’s book Bridge To Terabithia, and its two film adaptations. And yet Terabithia, as distant as it may seem, is in fact readily accessible to those willing to leave the safety of earthly civilisation behind and rope-swing across a creek to the magical treehouse beyond which it lies.
As it turns out, film academia is just as easy to access, only its rope swing is the blossoming medium of the video essay and its treehouse is [in]Transition, the world’s first peer-reviewed academic journal of “videographic film and moving image studies”. Don’t let the big words put you off: behind the scholarly jargon, [in]Transition is a treasure...
- 7/2/2016
- by Charlie Lyne
- The Guardian - Film News
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