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Games rely on tired concepts for appeal


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The current state of the video game industry is, to put it mildly, in danger of stagnating. Like television networks and film studios, the major game developers seem extremely hesitant to take chances on ideas or properties that haven’t been proven to work. It’s a hard attitude to fight, especially considering the way the current […]

Auteurship gives dull cinema style, flair


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With a slew of remakes and sequels dominating theaters, modern cinema is seemingly devoid of originality. Many films could escape this fate, but they lack the creative drive necessary for a unique voice — they lack auteurship. The auteur theory suggests that a film’s originality, in large part, stems from the director, the driving creative […]