Screen & Culture on AuthZhttps://authz.ca/essays/screen-culture/Recent content in Screen & Culture on AuthZHugoen-CATranslation, Not Replication: How Cinema Finds the Nuance of Literaturehttps://authz.ca/essays/translation-not-replication/Mon, 13 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0700https://authz.ca/essays/translation-not-replication/This article argues that the most successful film adaptations, such as ‘Rear Window,’ ‘Jaws,’ and ‘Psycho,’ don’t just copy their literary sources but translate their core themes into a new, distinctly cinematic language built on visuals, performance, and sound.The Literary Single Take: Narrative Techniques for Cinematic Immersionhttps://authz.ca/essays/literary-single-take/Sun, 12 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0700https://authz.ca/essays/literary-single-take/This article proposes a framework of ‘functional analogy’ connecting the cinematic single take with literary techniques such as stream of consciousness, sustained second-person narration, and the one-sentence novel. Drawing on film theory and narratology, it examines how prose can simulate the temporal pressure of an unbroken shot.The Lupin Gambit: Adaptation by Indirectionhttps://authz.ca/essays/lupin-gambit-netflix/Thu, 09 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0700https://authz.ca/essays/lupin-gambit-netflix/This essay proposes ‘narrative inheritance’ as an AuthZ framework for reading Lupin: Assane Diop does not replace Arsène Lupin but studies and performs him, connecting Leblanc’s class tensions with a contemporary story of race, migration, family, and visibility.The Red Room's Long Shadow: What the Twin Peaks Finale Refuses to Settlehttps://authz.ca/essays/twin-peaks-finale-cognitive-disruption/Sun, 05 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0700https://authz.ca/essays/twin-peaks-finale-cognitive-disruption/The Twin Peaks Season 2 finale closes some of its immediate plot while turning Dale Cooper’s rescue mission into an unresolved crisis of identity. This essay separates that close reading from claims about audience psychology and the episode’s later influence.Television as Thought Experiment: Two Moral Tests in The Twilight Zonehttps://authz.ca/essays/twilight-zone-moral-imagination/Sat, 04 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0700https://authz.ca/essays/twilight-zone-moral-imagination/This essay proposes ‘Television as Thought Experiment’ as an AuthZ interpretive framework, comparing how two early Twilight Zone episodes test desire, suspicion, and collective responsibility.The Genre as Barometer: Screenwriting and American Distrusthttps://authz.ca/essays/genre-as-barometer/Fri, 26 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0700https://authz.ca/essays/genre-as-barometer/This essay treats three “shared fictions”—a just system, a benevolent state, and a coherent self—as an AuthZ interpretive framework for reading selected American crime films.The Trojan Horse of Laughter: Screwball Comedy as Social Critiquehttps://authz.ca/essays/the-trojan-horse-of-laughter-screwball-comedy-as-social-critique/Fri, 12 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0700https://authz.ca/essays/the-trojan-horse-of-laughter-screwball-comedy-as-social-critique/This essay treats the ‘Trojan horse’ as an AuthZ interpretive frame, not a proven industry strategy. It follows five comedies from 1940 to 1960 while separating what their production records establish from what their class, gender, and workplace conflicts invite viewers to infer.