Vorkapich Yin , Eisenstein Yang

The theories of two great film theorists, Slavko Vorkapich and Sergei Eisenstein, are compared and summarized. Their theories are mutually illuminating; for Vorkapich, film is kinesthetics, for Eisenstein, it is montage. These two approaches, when viewed together in parallax, provide a deeper view into what makes film tick.

The Self-Educative, Narrative and Metaphorical Faculties of the Soul

The arts are fundamentally process, not product. The arts can be used to educate not only the senses, but the soul as well, inasmuch as the languages of art, namely narrative, metaphor and autobiography, correspond to inherent faculties of the soul. The argument put forward in this essay is that the arts are an indespensable part of any educational curriculum that attempts to address the subjects of character, morality or spirituality.

Blade Runner the Comic,
Akira the Film Noir

The visual styles of Blade Runner and Akira are both parallel and opposite. Blade Runner is a film whose aesthetics evoke graphic novels, while the animation in Akira - a film based on Katsuhiro Otomato's graphic novel of the same name - emulates all the visual idiosyncrasies of live-action film. Blade Runner is the film that became a graphic novel, while Akira is the graphic novel that became a film.

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