These are some initial thoughts on Jeffrey Sconce’s “Trashing the Academy: Taste, Excess, and an Emerging Politics of Cinematic Style,” published in Screen in 1995. The most I could manage with my time this morning was a few short paragraphs, but I look forward to expanding them. In his 1995 essay “Trashing the Academy,” JeffreyContinue reading “Jeffrey Sconce, Trashing the Academy (part 1)”