Last winter, I had an online section of Contemporary Film, which I defined as "some sweet and/or important movies from the 21st Century." Only six students signed up, and throughout the semester, they watched the movies I assigned -- cultural artifacts designed to be shown in theaters -- on their phones through links in Brightspace, our online learning management system at NCMC. As much as it negatively impacted what I wanted the experience to be, one has to be pragmatic and facilitate convenience. But I know I am doing the artifacts a disservice by doing so, like I'm shitting on the face of cinema. Over the past few weeks, noted directors such as Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola have attacked the Marvel Cinematic Universe -- words like "that's not cinema" and "despicable" have fallen from their mouths like turds falling into drinks -- by equating those films to theme park entertainments rather than potentially transcendent cinema. In th