by Daniel O’Brien
In this video essay, Daniel O’Brien examines the role of continuity in two of Penny Marshall’s films, Big and Awakenings, to consider its relationship with youth, time and temporality.
Daniel O’Brien is a Lecturer in Film and Digital Media at The University of Essex. His teaching and areas of research span across film, video game studies, interactive media art, and video essaying. Recent publications include Digital Love: Through the Screen/Of the Screen (Bloomsbury, 2023), Media Ownership and Digital Authenticity in Slum TV (Routledge, 2022), and Zoom’s Performative Window: Affordances and Constraints (Bloomsbury, forthcoming in 2024). He is working on a monograph titled Postphenomenology and Narrative Across Cinema, Interactive Art and Gaming with Edinburgh University Press.
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