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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]
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]
Additionally, film societies such as Cinema 16 found success in focusing primarily on experimental and nonfictional film. Until the 1960s, minor cinema in the United States was a concept that was primarily accessed by those aligned with Hollywood (such as Val Lewton ) and leading figures of pop culture such as Andy Warhol. [ 13 ]
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.
Linguistic film theory was proposed by Stanley Cavell [1] and it is based on the philosophical tradition begun by late Ludwig Wittgenstein.The theory itself is said to mirror aspects of the activity of Wittgenstein's own philosophising (e.g. Wittgenstein's thought experiments) as films are viewed capable of engaging the audience in a therapeutic process of 'dialogue' and even investigate the ...
Noël Burch (born 1932) is an American film theorist and movie maker who moved to France at a young age. Burch is known for his contribution to terms commonly used by film scholars (such as institutional mode of representation (IMR)) and for his theories compiled in books such as Theory of Film Practice or La lucarne de L'Infini.