Film and Media Atlas

How Stories Are Broadcast
Sign In
Text size
100%
Theme
Category

Articles

Learn More articles the atlas's entities carry: longer prose than an entity page itself, drafted only when article authoring is active as a dedicated end of phase pass rather than continuously. Ruling 650 currently suspends new drafts during the fact fill push, so most articles here are pending review rather than freshly minted. This category is the index of those drafts, not a subject in its own right; it excludes the entities the articles are about, which live under their own types.

Articles

A one week script, a two hour forty five minute first cut

Articles
1 link

Banned, Then Cleared: The Tin Drum's Fight With Censors

Articles
1 link

Budget discipline and a near cast revolt behind M*A*S*H

Articles
1 link

From a film school thesis to a slow-burning cult favorite

Articles
1 link

From Editing Stage to Marketing Label

Articles
1 link

Gone with the Wind carries one director's name for three directors' work

Articles
1 link

How a 1.8 million dollar budget shaped Carrie

Articles
1 link

How a limited release is judged by its per-screen average

Articles
1 link

How a lost workprint reshaped the Blade Runner cuts

Articles
1 link

How a Palme d'Or Winner Missed the Oscar Shortlist

Articles
1 link

How a Six-Hour Television Cut Cost The Best Intentions Its Oscar Bid

Articles
1 link

How a Stallone action script became an Eddie Murphy comedy

Articles
1 link

How Christopher Nolan kept practical effects at the center of the modern blockbuster

Articles
1 link

How Inception built a corridor that turned a full circle

Articles
1 link

How Jonathan McIntosh's video essay named a science fiction pattern

Articles
1 link

How Lucas Got Star Wars Made Before It Became a Franchise

Articles
1 link

How Malpaso and Warner Bros. Gave Clint Eastwood Control of His Films

Articles
1 link

How mockbusters became a home video niche

Articles
1 link

How Netflix moved from mailed discs to whole seasons at once

Articles
1 link

How Radio Invented the Anthology Series

Articles
1 link

How The Birth of a Nation's Technical Landmark Status Collided With Organized Protest

Articles
1 link

How the double feature ended the commercial short

Articles
1 link

Made in Secret, Without a Permit

Articles
1 link

One essay for five students: how The Breakfast Club answers its own assignment

Articles
1 link

Protection, empowerment and critique: the traditions inside media literacy

Articles
1 link

The cast Bob Fosse inherited, and the cast he chose himself

Articles
1 link

The Casting Gamble Behind L.A. Confidential's Two Unknown Leads

Articles
1 link

The Debate Held Inside CBS's Own Chicago Studio

Articles
1 link

The final girl debate: progress or containment

Articles
1 link

The press baron who tried to bury Citizen Kane

Articles
1 link

The Titanium Behind the Title, and How Critics Met Titane

Articles
1 link

Twin films: when studios avoid the clash

Articles
1 link

What the Bechdel test was never meant to prove

Articles
1 link

Why Critics Kept Calling Nanook of the North One of the Best Documentaries Ever Made

Articles
1 link

Why film adaptations change their source: fidelity, elision and invention

Articles
1 link

Why Orbit Decided Who Could Broadcast by Satellite

Articles
1 link

Why the Camera Obscura Has No Single Birth Date

Articles
1 link

Why The White Ribbon never names its culprits

Articles
1 link
Comments (0)
No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.
Reader Challenges (0)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.