From: Nellie Killian (email suppressed)
Date: Wed Mar 31 2010 - 09:59:31 PDT
Yuri Tsivian made a really interesting CD-Rom on pre-revolutionary Russian
cinema called Immaterial Bodies. It would make a great website, or a great
resource for someone looking to build the type of interactive site you are
talking about.
http://www.amazon.com/Immaterial-Bodies-Cultural-Analysis-Russian/dp/0967412749
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Myron Ort <email suppressed> wrote:
> My brilliant friend Kevin Moore does just this in his online musicology,
> providing mp3 files of the musical examples he is discussing:
>
>
> http://64.251.10.200/encyclopedia_pages/1940-el-pirulero-no-vuelve-m-s?source_type=User&source_id=7
>
> Like you suggest, it would be great to do something like this with film
> criticism.
>
>
> Myron Ort
>
>
> On Mar 31, 2010, at 8:23 AM, Gene Youngblood wrote:
>
> Frameworkers,
> Is anyone aware of a film criticism (or film analysis) website where text
> is augmented with links to clips that illustrate the text. You are reading
> an online analysis of Potemkin. Click on the word "montage" and it shows you
> the sequence that is being analyzed. You can repeat the clip, slow it down,
> freeze it, zoom in on a detail.
>
> Alternatively, are there DVDs that do this, either interactively or as a
> fixed mode of analysis and explication? The professor is lecturing in a
> classroom, or the critic is featured in a documentary, and their voices
> carry over clips of what they're talking about, with the same possibilites
> of repeat, slow, freeze and detail.
>
> It would be nice, for example, if Criterion's Brakhage releases featured
> someone like Fred Camper analyzing Stan's complex phrasings, rhymes, etc. in
> this manner.
>
> Gene Youngblood
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