The Clockwork Penguin

Daniel Binns is a media theorist and filmmaker tinkering with the weird edges of technology, storytelling, and screen culture. He is the author of Material Media-Making in the Digital Age and currently writes about posthuman poetics, glitchy machines, and speculative media worlds.

Author: dan

  • Hit/Miss: Evolving Narratives and the Semiotics of the Blockbuster

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    The high-budget, visual-effects-laden Hollywood blockbuster film is among the most popular entertainments of the modern era. While viewing practices continue to change and evolve, the major studios still push out some twenty or thirty films each year with budgets exceeding US$10 million. The blockbuster film is often pushed to the boundaries of film studies as populist escapism. This paper seeks to position the blockbuster film as the ideal indicator of cinematic trends, demonstrating that these films are changing the very nature of narrative. (more…)

  • New site launched

    In the hopes of keeping things a bit more contained, and drawing in my various websites, presences and so on, I’ve set up this site. For those of you who haven’t encountered me before, I’m Dan, and I’m a writer, producer, and researcher from Sydney. My primary research focus is film studies, and I’m interested in the links between cinema and other media, particularly video games and literature. I’ve published on cinematic representations of D-Day and the changing nature of film narrative.

    This site will be populated with a CV, publications list, filmography, and more, over the coming weeks.