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From ‘video essay’ to ‘video monograph’?: Indy Vinyl as academic book

June 15, 2020/in Features, Spring 2020_#Intelligence /by Greg DeCuir

Sarah Barrow argues that the video essay provides a ‘viable alternative to the academic book’.[1] This article explores that claim, considering how a video essay-based project can pursue a single topic in the manner of a monograph. The case study is Indy Vinyl, my collection of video essays and writing about vinyl records in American Independent Cinema. I argue that an approach informed by traditional scholarly values should be augmented by more exploratory thinking, when moving from written to practice-based forms of film criticism. 

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Megaphone, Molotov, Moviola: 1968 and Global Cinema / Celluloid Revolt

June 14, 2020/in Book Reviews, Reviews, Spring 2020_#Intelligence /by Greg DeCuir

‘There have never been any good films on that period’, quips Jean-Luc Godard in his salty assessment of 1968, a thunderous era of insurrection, invention, and promise.[1] No artists, no aesthetics, were able to competently capture those outbursts, monumental as they were; elusive and at least a tad unrepresentable, the Parisian barricades (an event that […]

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The play of iconicity in Lars von Trier’s The House That Jack Built

June 14, 2020/1 Comment/in Features, Spring 2020_#Intelligence /by Greg DeCuir

This article studies the function of the iconic sign and the operation of diagram-icons in Lars von Trier’s The House That Jack Built (2018), a film about a serial killer Jack (Matt Dillon) who builds a house of corpses before being escorted to hell. What is remarkable in this film is von Trier’s specific use of filmic iconicity in probing the value of Western icons in art and architecture. In voiceover digressions from the narrative action following Jack’s serial killing, a comparison is made between the iconic power of murder on a grand scale (specified as genocides throughout history) and culturally valuated icons of art and architecture. The article focuses on the audiovisual icons in the film that invites the audience to diagrammatic readings and fabulation throughout and beyond the film’s narrative content. After a short introduction to the iconic sign and the diagram-icon respectively, the exploration of the film takes its starting point in how Jean-Luc Godard used the iconic force of the color red in Pierrot le Fou (1965). Even though the significant use of red throughout The House That Jack Built is justified within the context of serial killing, its many reiterations also qualifies ‘red’ as a diagrammatic feature combining iconic elements transversally. This diagrammatic feature foregrounds the film’s fabulatory and haptic levels beyond its strictly narrative content, making way for the wider philosophical comments expounded ‘in the film’ by the figure of Verge (Bruno Ganz). His extradiegetic voice becomes intradiegetic in the last part of the film as his body appears, acting as a guide for Jack into a version of Dante’s hell. 

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Cinema and a ‘time-varying universe’: An interview with curator Antonio Somaini

June 14, 2020/in Exhibition Reviews, Reviews, Spring 2020_#Intelligence /by Greg DeCuir

On 12 January 2020 the exhibition Time Machine: Cinematic Temporalities opened in the Palazzo del Governatore in Parma. Commissioned by the city’s Department of Culture led by the film studies scholar Michele Guerra and conceived as part of the cultural program for Parma 2020 Italian Capital of Culture, this exhibition offers a transmedial and media-archaeological […]

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Lecture Series – ‘Kracauer Lectures in Film and Media Theory’

May 1, 2020/in News /by Greg DeCuir

The online media repository media/rep/ – which also provides PDF downloads of our issues – has made several lectures from the ‘Kracauer Lectures in Film and Media Theory’, held at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, available online. The lecture series, named in honor of the Frankfurt-born philosopher, sociologist, and writer Siegfried Kracauer (1889-1966), presents innovative […]

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Conference – ‘Experimental Film, Video Art, and the Borders of Cinema’

April 28, 2020/in News /by Greg DeCuir

From 5-6 November 2020, the Queen Mary University of London will be hosting the conference ‘Experimental Film, Video Art, and the Borders of Cinema’ in cooperation with the British Society of Aesthetics Synergy. The conference aims to highlight the contribution of experimental films and video art to contemporary culture.  Overcoming negations – such as non-narrative, […]

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Stories we tell: Remembering Thomas Elsaesser

December 12, 2019/10 Comments/in News /by Greg DeCuir

Every collective, no matter if a family, an academic discipline, or a nation, is in need of a story that provides an origin as well as a destiny and purpose, but this story – being an aesthetic object in itself – also contains a surplus, something that reaches beyond the sheer functionality of providing an […]

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Vacancy at Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf

August 21, 2019/in News /by Greg DeCuir

Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf has a vacancy for a full-time professorship starting in October 2019 in the field of analysis and aesthetics of audiovisual media within the department of media science. Applicants should have a willingness and motivation to cooperate with the artistic departments of the Film University, to collaborate on interdisciplinary teaching and […]

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The Videographic Essay – Revised and expanded edition

July 24, 2019/in News /by Greg DeCuir

The book The Videographic Essay: Criticism in Sound and Image, written by Christian Keathley (Middlebury College), Jason Mittell (Middlebury College), and Catherine Grant (Birkbeck, University of London) has been made available in a revised and expanded edition by caboose books within its Kino-Agora book series. Developed from a workshop held at Middlebury College in 2015, […]

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A conversation with Pierre Sorlin about film studies, film and history, and European cinema

May 27, 2019/in Features, Interviews, Spring 2019_#Emotions /by Greg DeCuir

by Francesco Pitassio As part of the series of conversations NECSUS has published with prominent scholars (see those with David Bordwell, Ian Christie, Richard Dyer, Anton Kaes, Laura Mulvey, and Vivian Sobchack), we spoke with Pierre Sorlin on his groundbreaking work in film and media studies. Educated as a historian, and working on interdisciplinary subjects […]

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Affective politics in contemporary media

April 15, 2019/in News /by Greg DeCuir

On 16 May in Amsterdam, the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis and Duke University Press will co-host a launch for two new books in media studies: Eliza Steinbock’s Shimmering Images: Trans Cinema, Embodiment, and the Aesthetics of Change and Figures of Time: Affect and the Television of Preemption by NECSUS editorial board member Toni Pape. […]

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Anna Magnani: Actress, Diva, Icon

March 26, 2019/in News /by Greg DeCuir

From 5-7 June 2019, a conference on Italian actress, diva and icon Anna Magnani will be hosted at the University of Torino, organised by Giulia Carluccio, Federica Mazzocchi, and Mariapaola Pierini. Through a variety of perspectives, the conference aims at tackling Magnani’s iconic work, which has had a peculiar influence on the history of Italian […]

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Early cinema, Sergei Eisenstein, and film culture today: An interview with Ian Christie on new directions in film history

December 2, 2018/in Autumn 2018_#Mapping, Features, Interviews /by Greg DeCuir

by Malte Hagener and Annie van den Oever  Martin Scorsese and production design, early British cinema and Sergei Eisenstein, the Archers and contemporary European film culture – Ian Christie is as versatile as he is prolific. We caught up with Ian between a visit to the Giornate del Cinema Muto in Pordenone, teaching at Birkbeck, […]

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Master class and public lecture by Richard Dyer

March 23, 2018/in News /by Greg DeCuir

On 5 and 6 April, Richard Dyer, Professor Emeritus of Film Studies at King’s College London, will give a master class and a public lecture at the University of Amsterdam. Both events are organised by NECSUS editorial board member Jaap Kooijman. Based on two of Dyer’s recent books, the master class topic is Lethal Repetition: […]

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The journeys of a film phenomenologist: An interview with Vivian Sobchack on being and becoming

December 6, 2017/in Autumn 2017_#Dress, Features, Interviews /by Greg DeCuir

by Julian Hanich Introduction Vivian Sobchack, born in 1940 in New York City, is one of the most influential American film theorists of the last 25 years. At the beginning of the 1990s she was the main driving force behind the recuperation of phenomenology as a viable methodology in film studies with her book The […]

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