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Irresistible instrumentalism: Materially thinking through music-making in the story worlds of silent films

June 8, 2022/1 Comment/in Audiovisual Essays, Spring 2022_#Rumors /by Greg DeCuir

by Catherine Grant …the image of musical sound itself becomes contagious…[1]  Irresistible Instrumentalism, the video essay embedded above, explores the somewhat paradoxical depiction in early cinema of the visible playing by onscreen musicians of music that makes no sound in the world beyond the film’s diegesis – the portrayal of music, in other words, that […]

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The Gravity of the acousmêtre: Listening via the radio and through paratext in film     

June 8, 2022/in Audiovisual Essays, Spring 2022_#Rumors /by Greg DeCuir

by Liz Greene In 2013, two films were released that speak to each other via a radio conversation, Alfonso Cuarón’s feature length space adventure Gravity, and Jonás Cuarón’s short film Aningaaq. Both father and son, Alfonso and Jonás Cuarón, wrote the screenplay for Gravity, and while in the process of the film’s production Jonás made […]

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Synced

June 8, 2022/1 Comment/in Audiovisual Essays, Spring 2022_#Rumors /by Greg DeCuir

by Johannes Binotto The coupling of optics and acoustics in cinema is never a natural given, but always a construction dependent on technological intervention. As we all know, moving image and sound recording, although both already invented, failed for a long time to come together because they lacked synchronicity. Attempts to run a gramophone record […]

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The place of the pop song in academic audiovisual film and television criticism

June 8, 2022/in Audiovisual Essays, Spring 2022_#Rumors /by Greg DeCuir

by Ian Garwood ‘The Place of the Pop Song in Academic Audiovisual Film and Television Criticism’ contributes to a discussion about the use of the pop song in the scholarly audiovisual essay, an area of videographic practice that has inspired scant self-reflection to date. The video operates in an explanatory mode, so I will allow […]

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Sound and the audiovisual essay, part 2: The theory, history, and practice of film sound and music in videographic criticism

June 8, 2022/in Audiovisual Essays, Spring 2022_#Rumors /by Greg DeCuir

by Liz Greene This is the second part of a curated two-part audiovisual section on sound and music for NECSUS. The first section contained four audiovisual essays that centred on dialogue, music, and effects and was published in Autumn 2020. This second part (in the main) addresses theory, history, and practice in film sound and […]

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Narrating the ‘Eternal City’ in ‘La Dolce Vita’ (1960) and ‘La Grande Bellezza’ (2013)

May 16, 2021/in Features, Spring 2021_#Solidarity /by Greg DeCuir

by Temenuga Trifonova Numerous studies have demonstrated the importance of the city and the moving image to the modern urban imaginary: one need only recall Anne Friedberg’s illuminating account, in Window Shopping: Cinema and the Postmodern (1994), of the ways in which 19th century visual experiences like photography, urban strolling, panoramas, and dioramas anticipated cinema, […]

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‘Color Mania’ and ‘Chromatic Modernity’: The polychrome experience of the moving image 

December 11, 2020/in Autumn 2020_#Method, Book Reviews, Reviews /by Greg DeCuir

Only in recent years has a new awareness about the role of colour in film aesthetics arisen. Several historical accounts of colour in film have appeared, but in 2019 two volumes come as significant contributions to film and media studies: Color Mania and Chromatic Modernity. Color Mania: The Material of Color in Photography and Film (Zurich: […]

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Conference – ‘Creative Engagement with Crisis’

November 8, 2020/in News /by Greg DeCuir

From 25-28 March 2021, parallel to the RAI Film Festival 2021, an academic conference featuring research in visual anthropology, ethnographic film and adjacent disciplines will be taking place virtually. Within the broad theme ‘Creative Engagement with Crisis’, the conference invites reflections on the notion of crises and the creative engagements with crises: How might research […]

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Lecture Series – ‘Cinepoetics’

August 18, 2020/in News /by Greg DeCuir

The ‘Cinepoetics Lectures’, a collaboration between the Center for Advanced Film Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, and the Kino Arsenal (Institute for Film and Video Art), are open to the public and free of charge – and now also available online as audio recordings. Following the research center’s goal to explore the poetologies […]

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Film Festival – ‘#Mina2021’

August 10, 2020/in News /by Greg DeCuir

Mina, one of the longest running film festivals dedicated to mobile & smartphone filmmaking, is now inviting submissions for the 10th edition of the International Mobile Innovation Screening. From 13-15 November 2021, #Mina2021 will present a public screening of smartphone, mobile and pocket films at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China and via Urban Screen […]

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Conference – ‘International Conference and Festival on Global Cult Film Traditions’

August 7, 2020/in News /by Greg DeCuir

From 5-7 November 2020, the Birmingham City University and the Black Sands Educational Project will be hosting the 14th ‘International Conference and Festival on Global Cult Film Traditions’, featuring online academic presentations as well as industry panels and a streamed film festival. The theme of this year, ‘Representations as Weapons: Cult Film and the Politics […]

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The artificial intelligence of a machine: Moving images in the age of algorithms

July 6, 2020/1 Comment/in Spring 2020_#Intelligence /by Greg DeCuir

This article introduces the special section #Intelligence, which includes seven essays addressing the impact of artificial intelligence on cinema and media from a cultural perspective. More particularly, three levels of pertinence are focused on. For the first level, selected papers analyse several representations of non-human intelligence confronted with human intelligence, as provided by film, television series, and video games. On the second level, a set of mutual functioning dynamics between AI and the media are identified and scrutinised. On the third level, the contributing authors consider how AI algorithms lead cinema and media theory to deeply rethink its assumptions about creating and viewing moving images.

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A Machine for Viewing – 3 – Manual for a Disassembly of Cinema

July 2, 2020/in Audiovisual Essays, Spring 2020_#Intelligence /by Greg DeCuir

by Oscar Raby

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A Machine for Viewing

July 2, 2020/in Audiovisual Essays, Spring 2020_#Intelligence /by Greg DeCuir

by Richard Misek In 1970, experimental filmmaker Peter Kubelka designed a cinema auditorium for Anthology Film Archives in New York, in which ‘shell-like’ seats and reams of black velvet caused all but the screen to disappear into darkness.[1] He referred to his Invisible Cinema as ‘a machine for viewing’.[2] Though the movie theatre is now […]

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(Ad)Dressing film history: Film and Fashion amidst the Ruins of Berlin / Film, Fashion and the 1960s

June 26, 2020/in Book Reviews, Reviews, Spring 2020_#Intelligence /by Greg DeCuir

In 2012, Helen Warner published the article ‘Tracing Patterns: Critical Approaches to On-screen Fashion’ in which she was still able to claim that ‘the study of on-screen fashion continues to be somewhat marginalised in the academy’.[1] Since then, publications dedicated to fashion and film have significantly grown in number. Beyond the seminal Fashion in Film […]

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