Reading Movies
with Paul Klein
Let’s talk about why movies matter.
Roger Ebert once called the movies an “empathy machine.” But how does this machine actually work? Reading Movies takes Ebert’s machine apart to examine how narrative, form, and historical contexts make the movies meaningful.
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Your Host, Paul Klein.
Join film researcher and writer Paul Klein as he explains how movies are more than just content. In each issue, Paul considers how different aesthetic, technological, and cultural inputs alter our relationship to the movies. We don’t just watch movies—we inhabit them. Reading Movies explains how.
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