Posts Tagged ‘remix video’

Skyler’s Nightmare

17Feb22

Last week I shared the epic five-part miniseries “Skyler’s Story,” retelling Breaking Bad from Skyler White’s perspective via a hybrid of women’s melodrama and experimental dual projection film. It took me weeks of work to assemble the 160-minutes from hours of footage, and thus I certainly felt a sense of accomplishment in completing the series, […]


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Making Videographic Criticism

01Jul15

The last two weeks were some of the most exciting and energizing of my academic career. My colleague Chris Keathley and I hosted an NEH-sponsored digital humanities workshop at Middlebury, called Scholarship in Sound & Image, focused on producing videographic criticism. We define videographic criticism as creating videos that serve an analytic or critical purpose, […]


Filed under: Academia, Film, Middlebury, New Media, Not Quite TV, Open Access, Videographic Criticism   |  12 Comments
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Teaching Narrative Through Remix

17Dec10

I’m writing from the grading bunker, which seems like a fine place to contemplate the purpose of assignments we give our students. Usually, my assignments are fairly conventional in both form and goal, looking to synthesize specific ideas from the course in a way that allows students to apply them to an object or topic […]


Filed under: Academia, Fair Use, Film, Media Studies, Narrative, Teaching   |  5 Comments
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Teaching Technology: Remix Video

22Apr08

Following up my previous post sharing my students’ projects in my Media Technology course, the second assignment was to create a remix video that in some way offered a critical examination of media, posting it to YouTube to potentially generate some feedback from people who stumble across it. One of my pet peeves about teaching […]


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