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Salad Fingers talks to his finger puppet before attending a picnic with a crow and a girl. Salad Fingers asks the girl questions but she does not respond. His finger puppet watches Salad Fingers through the window as he declares the girl his new playmate. The crow steals Salad Fingers's spoon, upon which the girl speaks to him for the first time.
In July 2004, Firth created the animated web series Salad Fingers, which was released on Newgrounds. [9] [10] The series was created using Adobe Flash, and David became a notable figure in the medium of Flash animation. [11] Ten episodes were released from 2004 to 2013, [12] and an eleventh episode was released in 2019. [13]
Film theory is a set of scholarly approaches within the academic discipline of film or cinema studies that began in the 1920s by questioning the formal essential attributes of motion pictures; [1] and that now provides conceptual frameworks for understanding film's relationship to reality, the other arts, individual viewers, and society at large. [2]
James Dudley Andrew (born July 28, 1945) [1] [2] is an American film theorist.He is R. Selden Rose Professor Emeritus of Film and Comparative Literature at Yale University, where he has taught since the year 2000.
Todd McGowan (born 1967) is an American film scholar, philosopher, and professor of English at the University of Vermont where he teaches film and cultural theory. He works on Hegel, psychoanalysis, and existentialism, and the intersection of these lines of thought with the cinema. [1]
Mulvey discussed aspects of voyeurism and fetishism in the male gaze in her article, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema".She drew from Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 film, Rear Window, applying terms from Sigmund Freud's theories of psychoanalysis to discuss camera angle, narrative choice, and props in the movie while focusing on the concept of the male gaze.
Cinema Speculation is Tarantino's debut work of nonfiction and combines "film criticism, film theory, a feat of reporting, and wonderful personal history". [1] The book is a collection of essays organized around "key American films from the 1970s" which Tarantino saw in his youth, [2] ranging from blaxploitation films to all the Best Picture nominees of 1970. [3]
She is a pioneer in the study of gender in film. [1] In 1974, Doane received a B.A. in English from Cornell University and in 1979, earned her Ph.D. in Speech and Dramatic Art from the University of Iowa. Doane specializes in film theory, feminist theory and semiotics, [2] and she joined the UC Berkeley Film and Media faculty in the fall of ...