Free Association: Fireflies Press and Contemporary Film Criticism
Holly Willis examines Fireflies Press’s journal and monograph series as artifacts of contemporary cinephilia.
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 examines Fireflies Press’s journal and monograph series as artifacts of contemporary cinephilia.
Holly Willis reviews a series of books on the rise of handmade cinema in the wake of digital technologies.
Holly Willis considers several short films that she contends can help improve writing.
True stories about writing replace lessons in new books on craft by Alexander Chee and Jenny Boully.
Holly Willis surveys three new books about what it means to be post-cinema.