Holly Willis is the associate dean of Research in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California where she teaches courses on new and emerging media forms, especially as they relate to moving-image storytelling. She is the author of Fast Forward: The Future(s) of the Cinematic Arts and New Digital Cinema: Reinventing the Moving Image.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
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....
