About Me
- Tom Connelly
- Thank you for visiting my blog. I’m a scholar of television, film, and digital media, and the author of CINEMA OF CONFINEMENT (Northwestern University Press) and CAPTURING DIGITAL MEDIA (Bloomsbury Academic). I’ve published a variety of articles on film and television in journals published by Taylor & Francis. I am also a writer of fiction. All of my books can be viewed on www.tomconnellyfiction.com
Watched and Read - January 25, 2026
MOVIES The Running Man (2026), directed by Edgar Wright , has some strong action sequences, especially the segment featuring Michael Cera...
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When I first taught world cinema, I knew I wanted to assign Ingmar Bergman 's The Seventh Seal (1957). But when the time came to put my... -
The Lacanian gaze is one of the hardest concepts I teach for my Film Theory course . The way we commonly think of the gaze (to look) is not... -
I often teach Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation (1974) for my Introduction to Film and Film Theory courses. The Conver...