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Bruce Isaacs

Bruce Isaacs is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Sydney. He has published work on film history and theory, with a particular interest in the deployment of aesthetic systems in classical and post-classical American cinema. He is the author of the monographs Toward a New Film Aesthetic (Continuum, 2008) and The Orientation of Future Cinema: Technology, Aesthetics, Spectacle (Bloomsbury, 2013).

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The Mechanics of Continuity in Michael Bay’s Transformers Franchise (Issue 75, June 2015)

Bruce Isaacs
October 2019
Highlights from 20 years of Senses of Cinema
Originally published in Senses of Cinema issue 75, June 2015. In perhaps the most scathing review in the mainstream media of Michael Bay’s Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) – the fourth release in the f...
Michael Bay Transformers

The Mechanics of Continuity in Michael Bay’s Transformers Franchise

Bruce Isaacs
June 2015
Michael Bay Dossier
In perhaps the most scathing review in the mainstream media of Michael Bay’s Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) – the fourth release in the franchise in seven years – Peter Travers of Rolling Stone magazine...

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