Kristen--Very interesting post! I should say, off the bat, that TVD is on my summer must-see list, and so with your spoiler warning in mind, I haven't yet clicked through to see the video itself. But I'm still quite intrigued by your analysis--e ...
Terrific post, Lindsay! I'm struck by how all of the clips so far have been both so full of affect and so unsettling: there's something striking about this IMR week's prolonged focus on visuals of female affect, agency, and negotiation; it& ...
There's something so strange and discomfiting about this video! I'm trying to put my finger on what it is, exactly, that rubs me the wrong way. I think it has to do with the way her self-presentation keeps shifting between a sort of expected pro ...
Terrific analysis of such a beautiful, effective vid. This vid speaks to me in (at least) two ways: 1) as a meta-vid of sorts, a feminist critique of The X-Files myopic focus on Mulder while Scully has faced such a vivid personal journey, and 2) as a char ...
What an impressive vid! The alignment of image to music, including rhythm and lyrics, is really something—made more difficult, I would think, in that it’s put to a song that is so virtuosic and so familiar at the same time. It takes the viewer’s expectati ...
What a great choice to start off this discussion. It’s interesting how fresh this piece looks because it’s not following the contemporary conventions of vidding (even as we can see in it the seeds of conventions prevalent today). It relates image and cutt ...
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Terrific post, Lindsay! I’m
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Terrific analysis of such a
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