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The Videographic Essay: Practice and Pedagogy Main Menu The Videographic Essay Table of Contents Introduction, Acknowledgements, and Further Reading Scholarship in Sound & Image: A Pedagogical Essay Pedagogical essay authored by Christian Keathley and Jason Mittell Dissolves of Passion In Dialogue: Eric Faden and Kevin B. Lee Becoming Videographic Critics: A Roundtable Conversation A conversation among practitioners curated by Jason Mittell But Is Any Of This Legal? Videographic Exercises Gallery of All Exercises Credits

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1. Abstract Trailer for Brothers
2. Epigraph Exercise: Trouble in Paradise
3. Close Up
4. Abstract Trailer for Transparent
5. The Big Sleep PechaKucha
6. Husbands Storytelling Voiceover
7. Stepford Wives Videographic Epigraph
8. Abstract Trailer for Twin Peaks: The Return
9. Belle de Jour Alternative Trailer
10. Adaptation Videographic Epigraph
11. Affair in Trinidad Voiceover Exercise
12. Captain Blood Voiceover
13. The Magnificent Ambersons PechaKucha
14. La Ciénaga Alternative Trailer
15. Gravity Epigraph
16. Abstract Trailer for Deadwood
17. Stepford Wives PechaKucha
18. Suspiria Alternative Trailer
19. Notorious alternative trailer An alternative trailer for Notorious, made as part of the NEH funded workshop 'Scholarship in Sound & Image' at Middlebury College, June 2015. Inspired by a particular shot which hints at a dimension of the film which could be elaborated if the narrative were oriented slightly differently, this essay seeks to amplify the idea that the spy story of Notorious is a means to articulate ideas around gender, jealousy and sexual insecurity.
20. Barry Lyndon Epigraph
21. Vampire Diaries / Imitation of Life PechaKucha
22. Jauja Alternative Trailer
23. Encounters
24. Blade Runner 2049 Multiscreen
25. Mahogany PechaKucha
26. Water Nymph Multiscreen
27. M*A*S*H Multiscreen Exercise
28. Belle de Jour Storytelling Voiceover
29. Elephant Man Multiscreen
30. The Elephant Man Voiceover
31. Abstract Trailer for Steadicam videographic essay
32. Imitation of Life Storytelling Voiceover
33. Multiscreen PechaKuchas
34. Fantasia PechaKucha

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Imitation of Life Voiceover Story Kristen Warner reworked the scene of Annie Johnson’s funeral from Imitation of Life, speeding up and slowing down some shots, re-cutting (and repeating) some film dialogue, and interspersing these with her own reading of the lyrics to Michael Jackson’s ‘Smooth Criminal’, whose refrain is ‘Annie, are you OK?/ Annie, are you OK?’ The song’s lyrics—‘As he came in through the window/It was the sound of a crescendo/He came into her apartment/He left the bloodstains on the carpet/She ran underneath the table’—depict a scene of physical violence that perhaps stands in for the emotional violence the character has suffered. The song’s refrain further points up the extent to which Annie has been taken for granted, ignored, cast aside: it takes until 1987, or perhaps even 2015, for anyone to ask after her well being.