Reading Movies is about how we make sense out of movies.
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Reading Movies is a semi-regular newsletter in which I consider how different aesthetic, technological, and cultural inputs alter our relationship to the movies. We don’t just watch movies—we inhabit them.
“For All Mankind suggests, then, Gunning’s lunar illumination is earthbound.”
- “Janus in the Moon: Al Reinter’s For All Mankind,” for Film Matters, vol. 14, no. 2
In “Janus in the Moon,” I wrote about Criterion’s 2022 re-issue of Al Reinert’s 1989 documentary, For All Mankind. Film Matters is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Intellect with support from the University of North Carolina Wilmington.