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Rotational Aesthetics: Michael Bay and Contemporary Cinema’s Machine Movement

Lisa Purse
June 2015
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It is no exaggeration to say that the Transformers franchise has occasioned the fiercest disparagements of Michael Bay’s audio-visual style. The films are viewed by many as the apotheosis of the director’s much...
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The Mechanics of Continuity in Michael Bay’s Transformers Franchise

Bruce Isaacs
June 2015
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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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The Transforming Face of Industrial Spectacle: A Media Archaeology of Machinic Mobility

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June 2015
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