Lecture Library
A community-generated archive of lectures, presentations and screening programs, complete with associated media clips and critical commentaries.
<i>Abstract: Recent work on Shakespeare and film has tended to leave the text behind in order to move beyond questions of cinematic faithfulness. Yet this reasonable impulse effectively obscures the ways cultural practices based on older technologies, such as playtexts and writing, persist in and shape our uses of newer forms, such as film and video. Michael Almereyda's film Hamlet offers an opportunity for comparatist analysis of what Michel Serres would call the "polychronic" nature of these technologies: the early technologies allegorized in Shakespeare's play; the multimedia practices illustrated in John Willis's 1621 manual, The Art of Memory; the mnemonic grammar of television and video editing; and even the forms of quotation we use in scholarly discussions of printed and audio-visual texts. </i>
A collection of clips from Anita Sarkeesian analyzing the gender politics of commercial television
La telenovela es el único género televisivo exclusivamente latinoamericano. A pesar de compartir algunas características con otros géneros de ficción televisiva seriada como las soap operas estadounidenses y europeas, la telenovela posee características propias claramente delimitadas. Las convenciones audiovisuales del género y las rupturas que de ellas se hagan en cada telenovela en particular también son indispensables al momento de interpretar los discursos sociales que ellas ponen en circulación. Desde ahí se puede construir un nuevo tipo de lectura, a contra-pelo, que redescubre en una nueva dimensión lo que se está comunicando, una dimensión mítica si se recupera la perspectiva barthesiana y la noción de cripta de Derrida.
This selection of clips from films discussed by French philosopher Gilles Deleuze was compiled in Fall 2009 by students in Professor Kara Keeling's Critical Studies graduate seminar on Deleuze and Culture at the University of Southern California.
The following selection of film clips from films discussed by French philosopher Gilles Deleuze were compiled in the Fall of 2009 by the participants in Professor Kara Keeling's Critical Studies graduate seminar on Deleuze and Culture at the University of Southern California.
A comparison of the Transverberation scene in four films featuring the life of Saint Teresa of Avila
A comparison of stalking scenes in the 2008 film Twilight and in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
This lecture considers questions of epistemology in relation to documentary media, using the construction/reconstruction of historical events as a case-study
This lecture outlines some basic properties of database narratives, referring to the debate between Lev Manovich and Marsha Kinder on the nature of selection and combination in narrative.