The Impossibility of an American Cinematic Wave
Title: The Impossibility of an American Cinematic Wave
Creator: Maddie Gwinn
Category: Mind
Creator Commentary:
For postmodern creatives, there is an intense psychic pressure of life under late Capitalism that shatters the psyche itself, destabilizing the once solid core of individual identity and rendering it ineffective as a source of aesthetic expression. Filmmakers possess agency within social systems to break tradition and define the present identity of a nation, and as Rimbaud says “one must be absolutely modern”. This essay explores how Hollywood has failed to wield its agency through the form of cinematic waves.
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Creator Bio:
Maddie Gwinn is a currently finishing her senior thesis in directing, a film called Marketa in the Desert, and Capstone project for the Honors Program titled “Countering the Current: The Function of Cinematic Waves in Communist vs. Capitalist Societies”. After graduation, she plans to move to Europe to pursue a mentorship program with Jane Campion and a directing program at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg through the following spring. Maddie spends her free thoughts lamenting the postmodern condition.