Colin Burnett

Yet Another End-of-Cinema Panic: On Rose Horowitch’s “The Film Students Who Can No Longer Sit Through Films” Narratives about the end of cinema are as old as cinema itself. I’ve written about two (here and here). The earliest one I can think of dates to 1897, if you can believe it. These narratives …

The @theatlantic.com piece on film screenings that is making the rounds, to me, overlooks a great many things. So here's my response!

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In just over a month I’ll be joining this exceptional group of scholars to discuss Bresson at Yale! If you’re in the vicinity, this is not to be missed. Bookended by L’ARGENT and the brand new DCP of QUATRE NUITS D’UN REVEUR!

After the #DenisVilleneuve news—that he’s directing #Bond26 —the Québécois memers got to meming.

WashU's Film & Media Studies Program is hiring! We’re looking for a visiting lecturer in digital media studies. Details and link below. Please share! The deadline for applications is May 30, 2025.

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Video Lecture: Make Exposition an Experience–How I Teach Soap Opera Storytelling At WashU, I teach several courses on the topic of storytelling. Just this past semester, I offered a graduate seminar on storytelling in James Bond media. Each fall, my lecture course Introduction …

My latest blog! If you want some of the teaching materials I mention in the lecture, don't hesitate to message me!

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The schedule's out for USC's Hollywood conference! What a great lineup overall. Here's where they've placed us:

Session 7: Friday, July 18th (4:15pm - 6:00pm)

#HWC25 #HWC2025

#WashU FMS pride! I'm very proud to see two Film & Media Studies majors, Alex Waters ('14) and Esther Merczynski ('24), featured in the Alumni Activities corner of this month's WashU Magazine. Here's to your continued success, Alex and Esther! #WUSTL

World-Telling On (and Off) the Grid: DisneyWorld’s TRON Lightcycle/Run (2023) “I don’t want the public to see the world they live in while they’re in the Park (Disneyland). I want to feel they’re in another world.”–Walt Disney How do theme parks place us in a fictional…

#TRON— most successful unsuccessful franchise ever? It just keeps getting a new lease on life. The premise of #TronAres is that life on “the grid" enters OUR world. This idea has long been in TRON graphic novels & theme park attractions—take a look. colinatthemovies.wordpress.com/2023/07/03/w...

Oops! Make that 4:15!

Folks in Chicago for SCMS--especially those with LOTS of stamina! Join us for the very last panel on the entire schedule, Sunday at 4:00pm. We'll make it worth your while! #SCMS #SCMS2025 #SCMS25

Looks FAB!

Yes!! What’s your panel?

Yes! Will do!!!

Oh wow. We should def stay in touch. Your work sounds really important—and of course timely.

USC's Hollywood conference--here we come! #HWC25

My 2nd piece on the current #JamesBond/ #AmazonMGM situation--this time, for @us.theconversation.com. In it, I clarify what has made the 007 franchise distinctive over the years, namely its threaded storytelling, which Amazon may now abandon. theconversation.com/what-amazon-...

Amazon Doesn’t Own James Bond—Yet: Making Sense of the 007 Franchise. A guest post by Colin Burnett Kristin here: Students and faculty in the film-studies division of the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are known for aesthetic analysis of films and historical ...

Here's a short piece I've wrote about the recent #JamesBond news. I clarify what a lot of reporting gets wrong, namely that Amazon MGM does NOT run the entire Bond franchise. I also speculate—why did EON step away? #JamesBond007 #Amazon #AmazonMGM

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Who Should Be the Next James Bond? Jeff Bezos Wants You to Chime In Amazon is taking creative control of the James Bond franchise, and Jeff Bezos is asking for your opinion on casting for the next 007 superspy.

Check out my thoughts on today's #JamesBond news--in #CNET! #JamesBond007 #Amazon #AmazonMGM #MGM

Here’s to ya, Mr. Lynch.

The Amazon-007 Stalemate: Some Historical Context Over the last few days, I’ve read a lot of commentary on the Amazon/Eon Productions “stalemate,” as the Wall Street Journal has called it. I thought I’d chime in to provide …

What explains the row between Amazon/MGM and Eon Productions, the company that owns the James Bond film rights? I've collected my thoughts in a blog post.

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Gloom, followed by hope.

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"A Poetics of the Popular Film Series: How the James Bond Films Tell Continuing Stories Differently." Journal of Narrative Theory 45.1 (Winter 2024): 1-36. This article challenges the commonly held view that the James Bond film series is episodic in its plot structure, presenting it as an attenuated, "flexi-narrative" form of series constructio...

Here's what I've been working on lately--how Bond media tell stories and some current trends in historical poetics!