How Modernity Affects the Western’s Morality in No Country for Old Men
I created this video in conjunction with a videographic criticism course I took in the Fall of my senior year at Middlebury College. By combining thought-provoking and brilliant visuals from Joel and Ethan Coen’s No Country for Old Men and Sergio Leone’s The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly with my own voice over narration, this video analyzes the neo-western (i.e. a film of the western style set in modern times) and demonstrates to the viewer that the modern setting of a neo-western can have a plot-shifting effect on a film’s main characters and their morality.
The Long Take Style and the Experience of the Spectator
I made this video in response to another video essay I saw on youtube that determines the long take fails in a scene of Alejandro Iñaritu’s The Revenant. I combat this author’s assertion here by explaining the effects of the long take style as defined by film scholar Andre Bazin and how these effects are exemplified in the same scene. You can find the orignial video here:
Jack Ralph 