Videographic Deformations: Equalized Pulse

17Jan16

This is the third and final (and, to me, most interesting) excerpt from my essay draft on “Videographic Criticism as a Digital Humanities Method.” The first laid out my approach to deformative criticism via the format of PechaKuchas; the second explored videographic 10/40/70 analyses. I highly recommend watching some of the musical videos discussed near […]

Filed under: Academia, digital humanities, Film, New Media, Publishing, Videographic Criticism   |  2 Comments
Tags: A Hard Day's Night, average shot length, Cinemetrics, Mildred Pierce, Moulin Rouge, Mulholland Drive, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Singin' in the Rain

Videographic Deformations: PechaKuchas

12Jan16

I’ve spent the last month working on an essay called “Videographic Criticism as Digital Humanities Method” for the second edition of Debates in the Digital Humanities. The full essay should be online soon for open peer review, but I want to share three excerpts that feature numerous video examples, as the blog is an easier […]

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Tags: All the President's Men, Barton Fink, Belle du Jour, Magnificent Ambersons, Mulholland Drive, Star Wars

Haunted by Seriality: The Formal Uncanny of Mulholland Drive

03Jan13

In my 18 years in academia, I’ve never been to the MLA convention – until now. For those who don’t know, the Modern Language Association is the largest humanities organization, and their annual convention is an iconic event, known as a massive academic job meat market and an object of mockery in the press for […]

Filed under: Academia, Conferences, Film, Narrative, Not Quite TV, Television   |  4 Comments
Tags: David Lynch, MLA, MLA13, Mulholland Drive, seriality