Wednesday Jan 13th
Session format: visual essay
Session aims: to elaborate a theory of the visual… that is visual. We will do so by exploring the hybrid format of the essay and its visual counterpart: the visual essay.
Reading for week 05:
-Alter, N.M., 2007. Translating the Essay into Film and Installation.
Journal of Visual Culture, 6(1), 44-57. Available at: http://vcu.sagepub.com/cgi/doi/10.1177/1470412907075068.
-Manovich, Lev, 2002. Prologue: Vertov’s Dataset. In The language of new media. Cambridge Mass.: MIT Press, pp. xiv-xxxvi.
Plus skim the (almost ) full book (at google books)
-Adorno, T.W. (1993[1954–8]) ‘The Essay as Form’, in Notes To Literature, Vol. 1. New
York: Columbia University Press. (click to download adorno-the_essay_as_form)
-Lukács, G. (1978[1910]) ‘On the Nature and Form of the Essay: A Letter to Leo Popper’, in Soul and Form. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (click to download Lukacs-on_the_nature_and-form-of-the-essay
-Marker, Chris, Sans Soleil
-Vertov, Dziga, Man with a movie camera
-Youtube playlist: video essay
Etivity for week 05 (for 1 month research)
Develop a visual essay that debates relationships between written essay and the visual essay, to be presented
in session 5;
Additional reading/browsing
