The Cinema Doctor

Cinematic, televisual, ludic, and sequential art prescriptions from a Cinema and Media Studies Ph.D.

Saturday, April 21, 2012

Thoughts on Being Ph.(inishe)D.

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On Monday night (April 16th), in the midst of watching the latest episode of Mad Men , I received an e-mail from Prof. Janet Bergstrom, ...
Monday, December 12, 2011

New Directions

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It feels like just yesterday when I posted the "Declaration of Principles" here at The Cinema Doctor .    Yet, it was four and a ...
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Monday, December 5, 2011

The Best Media of 2011 (Version .80)

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Another  month , another revision...  This time with the beginnings of a ranking and links to my reviews!  
Thursday, December 1, 2011

The Black Keys-El Camino (2011)

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I was more than a little skeptical when I heard that The Black Keys's Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney had been able to record another al...

A Dangerous Method (2011)

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A brief disclaimer is in order before I follow through here.  I haven't picked up much psychology reading in quite a while.  I read Sigm...
Tuesday, November 29, 2011

The Artist (2011)

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The midst of the annual awards season has given cinephiles two tremendous treats in Martin Scorsese's Hugo  (2011)  and Michel Hazanavic...
Wednesday, November 23, 2011

The Tree of Life (2011)

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I feel incredibly conflicted over Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life (2011). It is, without question, one of the most beautiful films ...
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Drew Morton
Drew Morton is a Candidate of Philosophy in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of California-Los Angeles. He is not yet a Doctor (nor can he read X-Rays, prescribe medicine, or remove problematic appendages) but he has played one on television. His popular and academic writing about media has appeared in the "Milwaukee Journal Sentinel," the "UWM Post," "Senses of Cinema," "Mediascape," "animation: an interdisciplinary journal," "The Philosophy of Steven Soderbergh," "Flow," "In Media Res," "The Playlist," and "Pajiba." He is currently struggling through dissertation revisions on the formal interchange between comics and film while navigating the uncertain waters of the academic job market. He can be followed on Twitter @thecinemadoctor.
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