Actually, dance movies are sort of seeing a revival, what with MTV Films’ “Save The Last Dance” and the recent explosion of onscreen musicals like Baz Luhrmann’s “Moulin Rouge” and “Chicago” (if you can count those as ‘dance’ movies) but I’m not sure that such a small handful qualifies as a full-blown resurgance. I’m all for it, though, if it means more scenes like Jim Broadbent doing those spastic backflips as Harold Zidler.
Personally, I’d love to see some more good Westerns. “Tombstone” was one of my favorite movies from the last decade or so. And what Westerns there are on the short-term landscape are pretty bleak. Costner. Ugh.
Dave, what do you want to see more of? (And Erin, have you had any luck logging in yet?)
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I'm the Director of the Games and Simulation program at Miami University in Ohio, where I am also an Assistant Professor in the College of Creative Arts' Emerging Technology in Business and Design department. I'm also the director of Miami's Worldbuilding and Narrative Design Research Laboratory (WNDRLab). I have a Master's in Comparative Media Studies from MIT and a PhD in Media Arts and Practices from the University of Southern California.
In past lives I've been the lead Narrative Producer for Microsoft Studios and cofounder of its Narrative Design team, working on projects like Hololens, Quantum Break and new IP incubation; in a "future of media" think tank for Microsoft's CXO/CTO and its Chief Software Architect; the Creative Director for the University of Southern California's World Building Media Lab and the Technical Director, Creative Director and a Research Fellow for USC's Annenberg Innovation Lab; a Visiting Assistant Professor at Whittier College and director of its Whittier Other Worlds Laboratory (WOWLab); the Communications Director and a researcher for the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab; a founding member of the Convergence Culture Consortium at MIT (now The Futures of Entertainment); a magazine editor; and a award-winning short film producer. more »
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