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Video Questions How Movies Use Smartphones

A new video essay looks at how the movies deal with the use of smartphones.






For better or worse, we're connected to our phones like never before, something filmmakers are forced to contend with if they want to portray modern life on screen. This video essay from Beyond the Frame questions how smartphones, and particularly texting, are portrayed in cinema, and gives an example of how they might best be integrated.