Film scoring for silent film has long been something that has interested me, even before I had the pleasure of seeing films with live accompaniment at the IU Cinema. It’s a practice that seems both endless and finite in its possibilities. You can create something that’s in the pocket of the era the film was… Read more »
I had the pleasure of interviewing Jesse Balzer, a PhD candidate in the Department of Communication and Culture (now IU’s Media School), about his current research on movie trailers and the industry creating them. What was it about movie trailers that first peaked your interest as an area of research? It was simply how familiar… Read more »