Author Bruce Bennett - Leon Gurevitch - Bruce Isaacs

Bruce Bennett - Leon Gurevitch - Bruce Isaacs

Bruce Bennett is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies and Postgraduate Director of the Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts at Lancaster University, UK. He is co-editor of the collection Cinema and Technology: Theories, Cultures, Practices (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), and author of the monograph, The Cinema of Michael Winterbottom: Borders Intimacy, Terror (Columbia, 2014). Leon Gurevitch is Deputy Head of School, Royal Society Research Scholar and Senior Lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington’s School of Design. Leon is an Associate Editor of Animation journal and has published his work, amongst others, in The Journal of Television and New Media (2010), Continuum Journal (2015), The Journal of the Royal Society New Zealand (2015), Senses of Cinema (2011), Convergence Journal (2014, 2013) and The Journal of Popular Narrative Media (2009). 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).

The Cinema of Michael Bay: Technology, Transformation, and Spectacle in the ‘Post-Cinematic’ Era

Bruce Bennett - Leon Gurevitch - Bruce Isaacs

June 2015

Michael Bay Dossier

Special Dossier edited by Bruce Bennett, Leon Gurevitch and Bruce Isaacs Michael Bay occupies a curious place in contemporary culture. The films he has directed, including the Transformers franchise (2007-2014...