Bruce Bennett

Tag: Michael Bay

  • The Cinema of Michael Bay

    The Cinema of Michael Bay

    I’m very excited to see that a ‘special dossier‘ of critical essays on the Hollywood film-maker Michael Bay that I co-edited for the open-access online Film Studies journal, Senses of Cinema, has just been published. This project emerged from a conversation with a couple of friends at the SCMS (Society for Cinema and Media Studies) conference in Boston…

  • Michael Bay’s promotional aesthetic.

    Michael Bay’s promotional aesthetic.

    A new teaser trailer for the forthcoming action film, Transformers: Age of Extinction, the fourth in this series of films directed by Michael Bay, was circulated on the internet earlier this week. There is a lot that might be said about these films (that are derived from a series of Japanese toys and a rudimentary…

  • The gendered practice of film-directing: Michael Bay

    The gendered practice of film-directing: Michael Bay

    These two publicity photographs of the  director, Michael Bay, on the sets of the superproductions, Transformers (2007 – top) and Transformers 4: Age of Extinction (currently in production – bottom) speak volumes about the fantasies and pleasures of masculinity that underpin the film-making process. This is evidenced in the US director Sam Fuller’s dry observation (in a…