The Queue is an oft-recurring column in which Meg Shields provides you with a distraction of curated video content sourced from across the web.
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By Meg Shields
Here’s a tribute to the various iterations of ‘Nana,’ and the two Anna’s who played her best.
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Focus up, with this video essay on the storytelling potential of the rack focus shot.
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Here’s a video essay on why watching a Stanley Kubrick film can be a trance-like experience.
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Here’s a video essay on why two episodes of ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ are shining examples of a show using the bottle episode to its advantage.
By Meg Shields
Here’s a video essay that clarifies the importance of a script breakdown with a look at Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel.
By Meg Shields
Here’s a video essay about the difference between queer coding and queerbaiting and what that difference can teach us about the history censorship and queer representation in Hollywood.
By Meg Shields
Heeeeeeere’s Mickey!
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Watch the introduction that now precedes ‘Gone With the Wind’ on HBO Max denouncing the film’s portrayal of slavery and situating the film in the context in which it was created.