COLLECTION NAME:
Graduate Thesis Collection
Record
Title:
Film Language & Emerging Cyber Analysis: The Radical Video Essay
Creator:
Hannon, Eugenia
Subject:
Thesis (M.A.) -- Cinema Studies
Subject:
Savannah College of Art and Design -- Department of Cinema Studies
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Abstract:
The following thesis will deal with the implications of the Internet within film criticism,
specifically, how this new technological apparatus allows a kind of film study that has heretofore
been impossible: the video essay. I will argue that these essays are able to reveal a critical
essence traditional academic writing cannot convey. Specifically, I will investigate the two
established video essay modes, explanatory and poetic, finally arguing that the poetic mode
exemplifies the capabilities of this new digital criticism. To this end, I will analyze Laura
Mulvey’s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes remix in order to fully illustrate the theoretic potential of
the poetic mode, and how this new way of seeing film is an essential part of the future of film
criticism.
specifically, how this new technological apparatus allows a kind of film study that has heretofore
been impossible: the video essay. I will argue that these essays are able to reveal a critical
essence traditional academic writing cannot convey. Specifically, I will investigate the two
established video essay modes, explanatory and poetic, finally arguing that the poetic mode
exemplifies the capabilities of this new digital criticism. To this end, I will analyze Laura
Mulvey’s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes remix in order to fully illustrate the theoretic potential of
the poetic mode, and how this new way of seeing film is an essential part of the future of film
criticism.
Abstract:
Keywords: Internet, video essay, deconstruction, post-structuralism, the remix, film criticism,
film theory, Laura Mulvey
film theory, Laura Mulvey
Publisher:
Savannah, Georgia : Savannah College of Art and Design
Date:
2015-03
Format:
PDF (31 pages) ; illustrations (some color)