video essays

Casual fans may not realize this, and even if they have they almost certainly  haven’t paused to consider the full implications of it, but the sprawling narrative we think of…

The clothes, as they say, make the man. This is especially true in the superhero world, and few superhero costumes are as stylishly iconic as the Black Panther’s, primed for…

Villains … Ya gotta hand it to ’em. ScreenPrism recently handed it to two of the most iconic villains of the last few decades: Luke Skywalker’s archnemesis Darth Vader and…

Richard Williams is not a household name. But as an animator he has risen to the absolute top of his field, the section reserved for practitioners so brilliant that they…

Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi is now in theaters, which means it’s time to take a look back at Star Wars Episode IV 1/2, also known as The Star Wars Holiday Special. The…

So much of the 20th century’s mythology is tied up in complex legal copyright issues as well as other commercial considerations it’s generally considered impolite to focus on. In the…

I don’t think it really requires an academic explanation, given that anybody who’s ever seen a clown understands what makes them extremely creepy (in the right context, that is –…

New from ScreenPrism is a video essay that combines a brief analysis of the favored themes and techniques of Christopher Nolan with the rhetorical tactic made famous by Jeffrey Foxworthy.…

The internet is probably choked with video essays about David Fincher (I even wrote one up recently). Mathematically, most of them probably aren’t very interesting, but David Fincher – Invisible…

If you’ve watched The Matrix lately, you might have noticed that it just seems to move better than most scifi action movies, or movies in any genre, really. There are…