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  VHS Found Footage and the Material Horrors of Post-Cinematic Images

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  Shane Denson Stanford University

  August 17, 2015

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  VHS Found Footage and the Material Horrors of Post-Cinematic Images video VHS post-cinema Paranormal Activity hyper attention Found Footage Video Aesthetics Curator's Note In many ways, the medium of video marks the displacement of cinema as the cult ...
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  Nostalgia, Horror, History

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  Shane Denson Stanford University

  Monday, August 17, 2015 — 2:30 pm

  this: 1) the emphasis on nostalgia, which the film certainly courts-- but which, for me at least, made ...
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  Post-Cinematic Cameras and Screens

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  Shane Denson Stanford University

  Tuesday, August 18, 2015 — 1:21 pm

  clearly fails to place the viewer within the space of the film-- or at least fails to do so in the way ...
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  Thoughts about found footage vs faux-found footage

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  Leo L Goldsmith Eugene Lang College, The New School

  Tuesday, August 18, 2015 — 2:47 pm

  side by side this week. At very least it might inspire an experimental filmmaker to make a faux-found ...
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  Video Aesthetics and Nostalgia Deployed in Better Call Saul

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  Anthony C. Bleach Kutztown University

  August 19, 2015

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  our knowledge of his "sad as hell" future sketched at the beginning of the series, but the ... viewers chronologically before the series' narrative begins. (In a neat audio mirror, Goodman’s ...
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  JOLT! And The Glitch Aesthetic

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  Rebecca Jackson Johnston Community College

  August 20, 2015

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  Goldberg’s The Goldbergs uses a similar technique when transitioning from an episode’s beginning narrative to ...
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  Analog vs Digital Glitches

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  Leo L Goldsmith Eugene Lang College, The New School

  Thursday, August 20, 2015 — 4:02 pm

  a unique material form as an object means that our sense of their materiality is at least a step or two ...
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  Did that just glitch!? Or am I crazy?

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  Sarah Fishel Georgia State University

  Thursday, August 20, 2015 — 7:48 pm

  Because “glitch” can be traced back to the MTV era, at least, are we now conditioned to it as well? Am ...
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  Gaza and the Trope of Encirclement

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  Shohini Chaudhuri University of Essex

  August 24, 2015

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  Gaza and the Trope of Encirclement Where Should the Birds Fly the western The Honourable Woman television drama Palestinian cinema Palestine news media Israel Homeland Hatufim colonial representation In Focus cinema journal Curator's Note In Where Sh ...
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  Re: Gaza and the Trope of Encirclement

  Great post, Shohini. The

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  Sara Saljoughi University of Toronto

  Tuesday, August 25, 2015 — 2:52 am

  Great post, Shohini. The footage is quite disturbing, to say the least. In addition to describing ...

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