The Videographic Essay: Practice and PedagogyMain MenuThe Videographic EssayTable of ContentsIntroduction, Acknowledgements, and Further ReadingScholarship in Sound & Image: A Pedagogical EssayPedagogical essay authored by Christian Keathley and Jason MittellDissolves of PassionIn Dialogue: Eric Faden and Kevin B. LeeBecoming Videographic Critics: A Roundtable ConversationA conversation among practitioners curated by Jason MittellStar Studies in TransitionBut Is Any Of This Legal?Videographic ExercisesGallery of All ExercisesCreditsChristian Keathley0199b522721abf067a743773a226b6064fe22f8cJason Mittell06e96b1b57c0e09d70492af49d984ee2f68945deCatherine Grantc9eab209ad26b2e418453515f6418aa2cbe20309
Adaptation Epigraph
12016-04-30T14:01:33-07:00Jason Mittell06e96b1b57c0e09d70492af49d984ee2f68945de75431An exercise by Jason Mittellplain2016-04-30T14:01:33-07:00Jason Mittell06e96b1b57c0e09d70492af49d984ee2f68945deJason Mittell's epigraph, quoted from Michel Foucault’s seminal essay ‘What Is an Author?’, in conjunction with the film Adaptation (Spike Jonze, U.S.A., 2002), explored how the film’s representation of writer’s block can be reread as a manifestation of the very dissolution of the author as a figure. In this version, the character of Charlie Kaufman fails to write, while his typewriter produces Foucault’s words that both mock his lack of authorial identity and seem to validate his failure as the byproduct of changing notions of authorship itself.