About the Author

Mansi Tiwari

E-Mail: mansi.tiwari@gmail.com

Mansi Tiwari is a PhD candidate in English and American Literatures at the University of Zurich. Her writing and teaching interests include the intersection of visuality, technology, and the digital in contemporary media. She is currently at work on her dissertation project on evolving conceptions of vision and subjectivity in 21st-century literature and cinema.

Contributions by Author: Mansi Tiwari

Issue 18
analog film
digital cinema
HBO
KODAK
visual studies
Winning Time

Winning Time and Losing Frames

Clashing Formats in the Post-Archive

Flitting through strips of analog film, camera burns, and out-of-sync audio, HBO’s foray into NBA basketball is a nostalgic love letter to the 1980s from the digital age. Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty (2022–23) both chronicles the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team in the ‘Showtime’ era, from 1979 to 1991, and grapples with the multitrack possibilities in film production today. With players and coaches addressing the camera as frequently as one another, the series refuses to commit to any particular film stock or camera technology…