‘La La Land’ Is a Delightful Return to Mise en Scène Cinema
The melancholy in this film's musical sequences serves as commentary on cinema’s bygone capacity to produce a unique kind of magic.
Angelos Koutsourakis
Angelos Koutsourakis is a University Academic Fellow in World Cinema at the Centre for World Cinemas and Digital Cultures at the University of Leeds. He is the author of Politics as Form in Lars von Trier (New York: Bloomsbury, 2013, and 2015), and the co-editor of The Cinema of Theo Angelopoulos (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015).
Is All the World Really a Stage in ‘Birdman’?
Is Birdman's metacommentary the theatre within cinema that it appears to be?