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    Gordon's Precious Obscurities Part 4: 25 Underrated Films To Check Out
    Gordon Inman
    • Feb 1
    • 6 min

    Gordon's Precious Obscurities Part 4: 25 Underrated Films To Check Out

    25 obscure films that local film historian Gordon Inman recommends! Hearts of the World (D.W. Griffith, 1918) - After the one-two punch of Birth of a Nation and Intolerance, Griffith traveled to France to film battle scenes for this Great War yarn during the Great War. It’s an incredible feat that directors were still gaining notoriety for doing half a century later. To Griffith’s simultaneous credit and discredit, he clearly would have taken a camera to the Civil War for Bir
    2020 Trends: Gordon Inman's State Of The Medium
    Gordon Inman
    • Jan 25
    • 4 min

    2020 Trends: Gordon Inman's State Of The Medium

    Chattanooga film historian Gordon Inman shares his final thoughts on the year 2020 for the film industry, locally and globally. In modern American society, which, for now, I will define as the beginning of the baby boom to roughly March 12th, 2020, people made something of a hobby of celebrating feats of low-stakes endurance as a staple of formidable character. These feats almost exclusively boil down to the following formula: [experiential noun] is not truly [uncomfortable o
    Gordon's Precious Obscurities Part 2: 25 Underrated Films To Check Out
    Gordon Inman
    • Dec 7, 2020
    • 6 min

    Gordon's Precious Obscurities Part 2: 25 Underrated Films To Check Out

    25 obscure films that local film historian Gordon Inman recommends! Shoes (Lois Weber, 1916) - After years of only being canonized for the use of split-screen effects in 1913’s Suspense, Lois Weber has finally entered the film lexicon as Griffith’s pioneering equal. Her now-consentaneous masterwork, Shoes, is unsettling for its portrait of puritanical hypocrisy and scathing critique on unregulated capitalism’s effects on working-class families (particularly its young women),
    Street Diaries I: Growing Organically As A Young Artist
    Dewayne Bingham
    • Mar 2, 2020
    • 4 min

    Street Diaries I: Growing Organically As A Young Artist

    How analog photography and making portraits of strangers has helped me to engage more thoughtfully with my hometown, Chattanooga.
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