What’s wrong with falsehoods in (fiction) film?
Google the phrase “inaccurate documentaries” and you will discover numerous sites triumphantly condemning the falsehoods in lists of culpable films, from Nanook of the...
What’s in a Name?
This is a good time for the area of philosophical inquiry after which this APA Blog Series is named (the reason for this circumlocution...
Not all Films are Fiction Films
What is actually going on in the cinema is that you are sitting in a comfortable chair, in a darkened room? Let’s say you...
AI Films and the Fudging of Consciousness
Remember feeling sorry for Hal 9000 when Dave Bowman was shutting him off in 2001: A Space Odyssey? Hal was a total AI prick—spying...
Man-Made Horrors Beyond My Comprehension: Men and the Phenomenology of Misogyny
Author’s Note: The following discourse will concern misogyny as it pertains to men and women. It is worth observing, however, the pertinence of nonbinary...
Eo and Animal Ethics
Disclaimer: Dr. Sara Bizarro is a series editor at the Blog of the APA. The views expressed here are solely those of the author...
The Aesthetics of Perfection: The Value of Culinary Achievement in The Menu
“It needs an ending that ties everything together conceptually. Otherwise, it just tastes good and who cares?”
Chef Julian Slowik, the villain of the film...
The Dead Eyes of “Decision to Leave”
Roland Barthes once wrote of the disturbing effect of the point-of-view shot from the eyes of a dead man in Carl Theodor Dreyer’s Vampyr:...
Nope’s Social Demons
In an interview that has gone viral in several places, Jordan Peele stated that he had five films planned on what he referred to...