Black Wave: The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez Transcending the Anthropocene/Responding to Nature’s Ethical Call James M. Magrini May 2024 Film and the Nonhuman Bill Nichols presents six conceptual lenses through which to examine the ways in which documentary film functions to invoke and convey its meaning or message, and they are the poetic, expository, observatio...
“Surrealism” and the Omnipotence of Cinema James M. Magrini August 2007 Feature Articles Starting from André Breton’s 1924 Manifesto of Surrealism, this essay explores the ways in which the Movement’s philosophical ideas found expression in the ‘first wave’ of surrealist filmmaking in such films as L’Étoile de Mer and Un Chien Andalou.