Holly Willis is a professor in the Media Arts + Practice Division in USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, where she teaches classes on digital media, post-cinema, and feminist film. She is the author of Fast Forward: The Future(s) of the Cinematic Arts and New Digital Cinema: Reinventing the Moving Image, as well of Björk Digital, and the editor of both The New Ecology of Things, a collection of essays about ubiquitous computing, and David O. Russell: Interviews.
Holly Willis
Articles
Free Association: Fireflies Press and Contemporary Film Criticism
Holly Willis examines Fireflies Press’s journal and monograph series as artifacts of contemporary cinephilia.
Scratching the Surface: Handmade Cinema in the Digital Age
Holly Willis reviews a series of books on the rise of handmade cinema in the wake of digital technologies.
Teaching with Film
Holly Willis considers several short films that she contends can help improve writing.
What Will You Let Yourself Know?: Alexander Chee and Jenny Boully Write About Writing
True stories about writing replace lessons in new books on craft by Alexander Chee and Jenny Boully.
Stumbling Through Pixel Blizzards: Recent Books on Post-Cinema
Holly Willis surveys three new books about what it means to be post-cinema.
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