“SOME NEW ELOQUENCE”?
On the written word in audiovisual film studies practice
Literature and Visual Culture Research Seminar, RHUL, Bedford SquareOctober 16, 2013 Catherine Grant
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VIDEOGRAPHIC FILM AND MOVING IMAGE STUDIES
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The experimental, creative and critical, film studies practices of remixing existing film footage in forms situated along a spectrum from completely ‘poetic’ through to solely ‘explanatory’.
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Practitioners are currently at the stage of primary exploration of potential formats, scope and value/ worth of videographic approaches, as alternatives or additions to conventional text-based academic research and publication processes and forms.
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“SOME NEW ELOQUENCE”?
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"it is the economy of critical word to illustrative image, the balance and weighting of their respective functions, that is slowly altering".
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“If, along the hard road to illumination, the audiovisual essay manages to find or create some new eloquence, some new sensation, or evoke some of that ‘mad poetry’ [...] found in intense theorising, […] then that’s all for the good”
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Adrian Martin, 'In so many words',
Frames Cinema Journal
, 1, 2013. Online at: http:// framescinemajournal.com/article/in-so-many-words/
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