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Summary: The voice of this article, Chuck Klosterman, is a retired film critic, who does not enjoy reading reviews of movies that he has not yet seen. One evening, Klosterman came across an old review of Vanilla Sky, which is a movie that he remembers fondly, unlike most. Vanilla Sky poses the question: What isContinue reading “The Awe-Inspiring Beauty of Tom Cruise’s Shattered, Troll-like Face”

Reading Summary This article from Chuck Klosterman was written as somewhat of a response to a movie review of Tom Cruise’s Vanilla Sky, which received a rather poor rating and was criticized for it’s use of the “What is reality?” theme. Klosterman writes this article in support of the movie and of the theme itself,Continue reading “The Awe-Inspiring Beauty of Tom Cruise’s Shattered, Troll-like Face”

READING SUMMARY This reading by Klosterman analyzes the question of why watching a prerecorded sport event is not as pleasurable as watching the same game live. If the game is finished, it will automatically be less interesting, and you’ll just fast-forward to see how it ends. There are two categories of reasoning for this: theContinue reading “Monday – Space, Time, and DVR Mechanics”

Reading Summary This chapter discusses human interactions via media and face to face and how an influence of technology has melded these together over time. Humans structure their words, body language, and actions based on the situational factors in which they’re communicating. In a face to face interaction, individuals are more conscious of what isContinue reading “Introduction: Behavior in its Place”

Reading Summary In this reading, Klosterman explained his thinking in his movie review process. It seems that he has different opinions than that of other movie goers. He explains his judgement on movies is based on the concept of reality and the way a movie challenges those concepts along with actors portray characters. Klosterman givesContinue reading “Reality in Films”

Reading Summary In this reading, Klosterman compares the sophistication of modern films vs. past films (specifically those made in the 70s). He explains that current cinema verges more on having no concept and being solely vehicles for certain celebrities whereas past films validated social evolution. The reason behind this being that films nowadays find difficultyContinue reading “Klosterman 4/1 Reading”

Reading Summary In this article, Klosterman discusses the idea of how pre-recorded sports is not as exciting as watching a live event. There are many reasons he gives to explain this theory by listing rational and irrational explanations. One reason was that when you have a pre-recorded show, you can skip through commercials, but theContinue reading “Space, Time and DVR Mechanics/ 3-30-20”

Summary This article discusses how many movies attempt to tackle the question of “what is reality?”  The author complains of the lack of audience appreciation for current movies attempting to answer this question.  Klosterman claims that the movies that receive the prestigious awards are often very dull and lack deeper meaning. Some movies in theContinue reading “4/1 Klosterman Reading”

Reading Summary This article seeks to answer the proposed question as to why pre-recorded sports events are less pleasurable than watching them live by providing 5 (rational and irrational) explanations. The first of these is that the removal of commercials, since you can fast-forward through them, eliminates the moments of emptiness between sets where tensionContinue reading “Space, Time, and DVR Mechanics”

Reading summary: In space, time, and dvr mechanics the author presents the idea that watching something live is better than the recorded version for rational and irrational reasons. The rational reasons are that the removal of commercials in a recording take away from the drama. Another reason is that watching the recorded version takes usContinue reading “Space, Time, and DVR mechanics- Jacob Nicholson Monday”