Scholarship in Sound and Image: Producing Videographic Criticism in the Digital Age

FAIN: HT-50086-14

President and Fellows of Middlebury College (Middlebury, VT 05753-6004)
Christian Michael Keathley (Project Director: March 2014 to June 2016)
Jason Mittell (Co Project Director: July 2014 to June 2016)

A two week workshop at Middlebury College for twelve participants on the topic of incorporating time-based media like video and audio in multimodal humanities scholarship.

This two-week workshop, scheduled for June 2015, will gather scholars interested in producing critical work in a multi-media format. The workshop is designed for 12 participants, ranging in rank from advanced graduate students to full professors, whose objects of study involve audio-visual media, especially film, television, and other new digital media forms. In a workshop setting, we will consider the theoretical foundation for undertaking such innovative work, and we will experiment extensively with producing multi-media scholarly work, resulting in at least one work of publishable quality per participant. The goals will be to explore a range of approaches by using moving images as a critical language and to expand the expressive possibilities available to innovative humanists. The curriculum and work produced by the participants in the workshop will be featured in a special issue of [in]Transition, the first peer reviewed journal devoted exclusively to videographic criticism.

Associated Products

The Videographic Essay: Criticism in Sound & Image (Book)
Title: The Videographic Essay: Criticism in Sound & Image
Author: Jason Mittell
Author: Christian Keathley
Abstract: The last decade has seen extraordinary developments in the multimedia presentation of cinema and moving image scholarship via the form that is commonly known as the ‘video essay’. What the finest examples of this videographic criticism have made clear is that such work allows for and even demands a different rhetoric than written film scholarship, which can in turn transform how we engage with and study cinematic texts. Some of the form’s alternative rhetorical approaches to the traditional scholarly goal of producing knowledge were tested in summer 2015 at an NEH-funded workshop, ‘Scholarship in Sound and Image’, organised by Christian Keathley and Jason Mittell at Middlebury College in Vermont. There, fourteen international scholars gathered to experiment with the new form.
Year: 2016
Primary URL: https://www.caboosebooks.net/the-videographic-essay
Primary URL Description: The publisher's website page for the book.
Secondary URL: http://scalar.usc.edu/works/videographic-essay/index
Secondary URL Description: This site, constucted through Scalar and linked via the publisher's website page for the book, presents a number of videos produced during our workshop.
Access Model: for purchase as paper book or ebook
Publisher: caboose books
Type: Multi-author monograph
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes

New Directions in Videographic Criticism (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: New Directions in Videographic Criticism
Author: Corey Creekmur
Author: Allison de Fren
Author: Jason Mittell
Author: Melanie Kohnen
Abstract: Panel presentation at the annual Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference in Atalnta, Georgia, featuring four members of our NEH funded workshop, "Scholarship in Sound & Image"
Date: 03/31/2016
Conference Name: Society for Cinema and Media Studies

Video Essays in Transnational Cinemas (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Video Essays in Transnational Cinemas
Author: Catherine Grant
Author: Tracy Cox-Stanton
Author: Nicolas Poppe
Author: Michael Talbott
Abstract: Workshop presentation at Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual conference in Atlanta, Georgia, featuring four members of our NEH-funded workshop, "Scholarship in Sound & Image."
Date: 04/01/2016
Conference Name: Society for Cinema and Media Studies

Videographic Criticism as Digital Humanities Method (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Videographic Criticism as Digital Humanities Method
Author: Jason Mittell
Abstract: Presentation given as part of a workshop titled, "Digital Humanities and Media Studies Methodological Expansion and Hands-on Experimentation."
Date: 04/01/2016
Conference Name: Society for Cinema and Media Studies

New Directions in Videographic Research and Criticism I (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: New Directions in Videographic Research and Criticism I
Author: John Gibbs
Author: Christian Keathley
Author: Catherine Grant
Abstract: Presentations of videographic work and its relation to various teaching and research topics, at the annual Screen Studies Conference at the University of Glasgow, Scotland.
Date: 06/16/2016
Conference Name: Screen Studies Conference.

New Directions in Videographic Research and Criticism II (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: New Directions in Videographic Research and Criticism II
Author: Patrick Keating
Author: Melanie Kohnen
Author: Liz Greene
Abstract: Presentations of new videographic work by three participants in the NEH-funded workshop, "Scholarship in Sound & Image."
Date: 06/16/2016
Conference Name: Screen Studies Conference.

The Equalized Pulse: Digital Humanities and Videographic Essay Research (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: The Equalized Pulse: Digital Humanities and Videographic Essay Research
Author: Christian Keathley
Abstract: Panel presentation on the ways that 'deforming' cinematic works via digital editing systems can be a first step in film research. Given at the Film/Philosophy Conference at the University of Edinburgh.
Date: 07/06/2016
Conference Name: Film/Philosophy Conference.

[in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies, issue 2.4 (Database/Archive/Digital Edition)
Title: [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies, issue 2.4
Author: Michael Talbott
Author: Allison de Fren
Author: Shane Denson
Author: Patrick Keating
Author: Jaap Kooijman
Abstract: This special issue of [in]Transition -- the first and only journal featuring peer reviewed videographic work -- featured five video essays by members of the NEH-funded workshop "Scholarship in Sound & Image."
Year: 2016
Primary URL: http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/intransition/issue-2-4
Primary URL Description: This is the [in]Transition site.

The Breathing Body and the Environment: Sound Design, Authorship, and Collaboration in Cinema (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: The Breathing Body and the Environment: Sound Design, Authorship, and Collaboration in Cinema
Author: Liz Greene
Abstract: Presentation by one of the members of the NEH-funded workshop, "Scholarship in Sound & Image," on a panel titled "From Footsteps to Breath: Atmosphere, Affect, and Audible Bodies in the Cinema."
Date: 03/31/2016
Conference Name: Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference.

ADAPTATION.'s Anomalies (Article)
Title: ADAPTATION.'s Anomalies
Author: Jason Mittell
Abstract: A videographic essay
Year: 2016
Primary URL: http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/intransition/2016/03/18/adaptations-anomalies
Primary URL Description: The video, creator statement, and two peer reviews
Access Model: OA
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: [in]Transition
Publisher: MediaCommons

Opening Movements in Ophuls (Article)
Title: Opening Movements in Ophuls
Author: John Gibbs
Abstract: A videographic essay that was started at the workshop
Year: 2016
Primary URL: http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/intransition/opening-movements-ophuls
Primary URL Description: The video, creator statement & two peer reviews
Access Model: OA
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: [in]Transition
Publisher: MediaCommons

Videographic Criticism and New Directions in Film & Media Studies (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: Videographic Criticism and New Directions in Film & Media Studies
Abstract: An overview of videographic criticism in a public lecture, plus a two-day workshop for faculty based upon the NEH-funded workshop.
Author: Jason Mittell
Date: 09/22/2016
Location: Miami University of Ohio

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