Other Criteria: Thinking in the Dark: Cinema, Theory, Practice, by Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer (eds.) Swagato Chakravorty March 2017 Book Reviews Edited by Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer, Thinking in the Dark: Cinema, Theory, Practice comprises a series of reflections by an impressive selection of established and emerging film and media scholars o...
Cinematic Spectatorship by way of Architecture: Gabriele Pedullà, In Broad Daylight: Movies and Spectators After the Cinema Swagato Chakravorty September 2014 Book Reviews Clocking in at barely 171 pages and change (including front and back matter), Gabriele Pedullà’s In Broad Daylight: Movies and Spectators After the Cinema is a breezily written – if conceptually original – acco...
Media Archaeology: Approaches, Applications, and Implications edited by Erkki Huhtamo and Jussi Parikka Swagato Chakravorty December 2013 Book Reviews Erkki Huhtamo (UCLA) and Jussi Parikka (University of Southampton, University of Turku) have pursued individual routes of inquiry into media archaeology, which has only recently gained critical momentum. Not qu...
