Carry over questions from last week:
From Bogost reading:
- Apart from reminding us that narrative is made up of ‘everyday stuff,’ what can lists achieve as a literary device?
- Why and to what end are we to be freed from the ‘tyranny of representation’?
- Bogost writes ‘lists do not just rebuff the connecting parts of language but rebuff the connecting of being itself.’ How do lists do this?
- If a list was to be created through a random non-human selection is a narrative still created?
Korsakow
- Why has google not brought out Korsakow as it seems like a relevant tool/application for working with online video and ongoing developments with YouTube?
- Will multilinear videos become part of mainstream mass media or will they always be a niche part of new media content?
- Are k-films hierarchical because you are trying to define something without a structure by applying it to something with a structure?
Rascaroli, Laura. “The Essay Film: Problems, Definitions, Textual Commitments.”
- How would you distinguish between an essay and documentary film when both can have exploratory and creative elements?
- How can you say a film essay is not a genre when it is categorised by the author as something else?
- Films are about interpretation and personal knowledge – does this type of interpretation and personal knowledge transfer readily onto a k-film when making it into a type of essay?
- With the emphasis placed on the viewer’s interpretation and the role it plays in defining meaning – is it possible for a piece of work based on classification being free from interpretation, opinion and speculation?