Sensuous Methodologies The Audiovisual Essay in Film & Moving Image Studies
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CatherineGrant(UniversityofSussex)
SensuousMethodologiesTheAudiovisualEssayinFilm&MovingImageStudies
VIDEOGRAPHICFILMSTUDIES
Creative,critical,performative filmstudiespracticesofreframing orremixing filmandmovingimageexcerpts….
VIDEOGRAPHICFILMSTUDIES
… whicharepublished/distributedonlineindigitalvideographic formswhich situatethemselvesalongaspectrum runningfrom‘explanatory’throughto‘poetic’.
OntheInternet...
…“[T]herepressedfilmculturethatgaverisetofilmstudieshasreturnedwithavengeance."
MarkBetz,‘LittleBooks’,inLeeGrievesonandHaydee Wasson(eds),InventingFilmStudies (DurhamandLondon:DukeUniversityPress,2008),319-341.
THEPENSIVESPECTATOROnthespaceandtimenewdigitalaffordances(e.g.DVDremotecontrols)seemtooffer
“forassociativethought,[for]reflectiononresonanceandconnotation,[for]theidentificationofvisualclues,theinterpretationofcinematicformandstyle,and,ultimately,personalreverie.”
LauraMulvey,Death24xaSecond(2006),146-147.
RICH(TEXT)OBJECTS?
”…ahybridform—existingsomewherebetweenreadingandwatching,likevariouscomputer-relatedactivities—ispartofwhatseemsforward-lookingaboutthem.Developmentsinfragmented,mosaicformsofprintcriticismcanbespottedelsewhere[…]Whatalltheseformsofcriticismsuggestisnotmerelyalesslinearwayofapproachingfilmexperiencebutalsoamoreinteractivemethodology.”
JONATHANROSENBAUM
SOMEEMERGENTFORMS/TECHNIQUES
• Voice/narrationoverfilmexcerpts• Textcommentaryorquotationoverfilmexcerpts• Alteredmotionexperiments• Interfilmic andintrafilmic Supercuts,compilations,
assemblages,collages:• Sequential video comparative montage• Split/multiple screen comparative montage• Comparative montage through superimposition