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"In almost every movie you go to these days you''ll see another screen - a television, a computer, even another movie screen - within the screen you''re watching," writes Peter Keough in the Boston Phoenix. "In 1964, when Marshall McLuhan submitted, in Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, that ''We have extended our central nervous system itself in a global embrace, abolishing both space and time. We approach the final phase of the extensions of man - the technological simulation of consciousness,'' it might have sounded a little over the top. Not so much now."

"What is this fascinating new film theory known as cognitivism?" David Bordwell offers a primer with linkage.

FilmInFocus interviews the SpoutBlog''s Karina Longworth.



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