Film scholar David Bordwell writes that "intensified continuity" is the visual style of contemporary American films. In his essay for Film Quarterly, he identifies and illustrates four aspects of change in how today's movies are shot and edited: more rapid editing, bipolar extremes of lens lengths, more close framings in dialogue scenes, and a free-roaming camera. The article goes on to discuss the subtle shift in aesthetics brought on by these elements of the new style.