Author: Todd McGowan

Todd McGowan forges a new theory of capitalism as a system based on the production of more than what we need: pure excess. He argues that the promi...

Todd McGowan forges a new theory of capitalism as a system based on the production of more than what we need: pure excess. He argues that the promi...

Since the release of Do the Right Thing in 1989, Spike Lee has established himself as a cinematic icon. Lee's mostly independent films garner popu...

The great political ideas and movements of the modern world were founded on a promise of universal emancipation. But in recent decades, much of the...

From Memento and Insomnia to the Batman films, The Prestige, and Inception, lies play a central role in every Christopher Nolan film. Characters in...

In Out of Time, Todd McGowan takes as his starting point the emergence of a temporal aesthetic in cinema that arose in response to the digital era....