“While there is no evidence to suggest this was staged, her stumble up the stairs at the 2013 Academy Awards to accept her trophy played a crucial role in creating this impression: she is not ‘trained’ to be a Hollywood star; there is a real person that exists beneath this rather tenuous façade…”
“Sitting atop of the Mayan temple, Andrew and Sam marvel at their surroundings – the magic space that has transformed them. Metacinematically, they also marvel at the presence of the weightless digital in the midst of…”
“Ugliness in modern art retains the persistence of a fear of nature that had supposedly been surpassed by modernity’s overcoming of the archaic. As Adorno argues, ‘the image of beauty as that of a single and…”
“In terms of its gameplay and narrative structure, Until Dawn follows the lead of the interactive movies of the 1990s and their modern-day counterparts, like David Cage’s Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls. Well-known video game critic Yahtzee Croshaw (2015) called Until Dawn ‘probably the best David Cage-style “interactive story” type game…”
“The power of the Spaceship Earth metaphor comes from the suggestion that the earth is in fact a small, closed system within a black void. A spaceship is a tightly controlled life-support system with just enough resources aboard to ensure survival for the duration of the mission…”
