Textual Analysis and Film Studies: Criticism, Interpretation, Evaluation

Programme of video essays and videographic film criticism for lecture 6

Seitz, Matt Zoller (2013 [2009]), “The Substance of Style. A video series on Wes Anderson and his
influences”: http://www.movingimagesource.us/articles/the-substance-of-style-20131126. Posted 26
November; last accessed 27 March 2017. 9 mins.

Malcom, Paul (2010[2007]), “Notes To a Project on Citizen Kane” on “On Citizen Kane: film-critical
and film-historical video essays” by Catherine Grant, Film Studies for Free:
http://filmstudiesforfree.blogspot.co.uk/2010/06/on-citizen-kane-film-critical-and-film.html.
Posted 8 June; last accessed 27 March 2017. 8 mins.

Framed (2016), “Psycho – And Cut”: https://vimeo.com/149223291. Last accessed 27 March 2017. 3
mins.

Gibbs, John (2016), “Opening Movements in Ophuls”, [in]Transition:
http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/intransition/opening-movements-ophuls. Posted 13 June; last
accessed 27 March 2017. 16 mins.

Creekmur, Corey (2016 [posted by Jason Mittell]), “MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS PechaKucha”:
https://vimeo.com/151590259. Last accessed 27 March 2017. 1 min.

Keathley, Christian (2011), “Pass the Salt”: https://vimeo.com/23266798. Last accessed 27 March
2017. 8 mins.

Kogonada (updated 2016[2013]), “What is Neo-realism”, Sight and Sound online:
http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/comment/video-essay-what-neorealism. Last
accessed 27 March 2017. 5 mins.

Kogonada (2012), “Ozu//Passageways”: https://vimeo.com/55956937. Last accessed 27 March 2017. 2
mins.

Zhou, Tony (2015), “The Bad Sleep Well – Geometry of a Scene”: https://vimeo.com/118078262. Last
accessed 27 March 2017. 3 mins.

B. Lee, Kevin (2014[2013]) “The Career of Paul Thomas Anderson in Five Shots” on “The Audiovisual
Essay: My Favorite Things” by Catherine Grant, [in]Transition:
http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/intransition/2014/08/26/audiovisual-essay-my-favorite-thing
s. Posted 26 August; last accessed 27 March 2017. 10 mins. *This whole page of video essays and
commentary on the practice would be worth looking at.

Mittell, Jason (2016), “ADAPTATION.’s Anomalies”: https://vimeo.com/142425249 Last accessed 27
March 2017. 13 mins.