Blog News
Today I want to again address the fact that post output has not been too high for the past few months - this is especially in comparison to post output in the latter half of 2017 where I could put out sometimes 40 essays a month. The reason for the slight drop off is simply because I've been writing on the blog now for more than 2 years now. I started Thoughts On before I began university and am now coming to the end of my undergraduate course. This means a lot of things are changing significantly in my life as I now have to work on a lot more things beyond film and the blog.
I mention this not as a preface to the blog coming to an end. The blog is far too valuable to me to abandon it any time soon. I simply mean to communicate today the fact that, whilst I am trying to become more efficient in all I do, it has become apparent to me that it is pretty much inevitable that I won't be able to post as much as I would like to. I believe the current volume of posts (4 to 5 a week) is sustainable. This means, not 40, but about 20 posts a month (I used to target at least 25 or 30).
The type of posts going up, you may also recognise has shifted slightly. It is not too common that I delve into deep analysis - especially with images. It is more common, however, that I stick to and emphasise film theory. I always want to perform more analysis as I believe this is the highest form of film criticism that should live alongside ancillary film theory, so I will endeavour to not let the blog be overcome by theory. I also mean to sustain the blog's exploratory side; its venture into world cinema and film history. The World Cinema Series is rather easy to keep up with, but I have not forgotten the highly demanding Every Year In Film Series. I have been sporadically writing the new post and viewing necessary films for more than a month now - blog research on top of my other scholarly research is simply something I struggle with. Alas, let us not detail difficulty.
I'm writing to you now to introduce a new kind of post. Today, I re-watched WALL-E and wanted to write about its subtextual depths, but have little to add to what I have previously written. In reading over the older post, however, I noted room for improvement. So, I am going to post an updated version of WALL-E shortly. I hope you enjoy what I am calling Rewind posts. If you have any recommendations for films for us to return to, maybe in the form of the new Rewind post (which, admittedly, I do not plan on putting out very often at all) or anything else, feel free to leave a comment.
As always, however, thank you for reading.
