New Approaches to Audiovisual Culture: A platform for student voices to challenge, energise and diversify engagement with audiovisual media. Goldsmiths Press
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Alejandra Borea - The Archive Inside Out: Crafting Fictionalities Through Sampling Practices
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Uroš Đurovic - Enhancing the Eurovision Song Contest Studies with the Practical Orientalism: Understanding Serbian Entries
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Colton Kempf - a C c f: a CROSSOVERS collective film
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David McKenna - Mad Men – Remediation and Speculation
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| ISSUE 6 - MICHAŁ BILSKI - CAMPY POLAND |
This research explores the interplay of queerness, camp aesthetics and Poland's unique cultural context. Drawing from Łukasz Szulc,
This activist, audiovisual approach transcends social norms and creates an abstract hyperreality, satirising and critiquing queerphobic attitudes. This activist aspect of camp is emphasised through an audiovisual part of this study that takes the form of a video essay.
Within the audiovisual piece, I examine the mise-en-scène and narrative techniques used in the music videos via means that allow me to illustrate camp sensibility instead of solely explaining it.
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| ISSUE 6 - NOAH JAY - PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE (2019) |
Well-renowned for its queering of the gaze, it might come as a surprise that Céline Sciamma's 2019 period piece Portrait of a Lady on Fire ends with a striking musical moment.
as well its major themes, eventually teasing out a glimmer of optimism in what might seem to be a sombre conclusion. My argument hinges on an ambiguity afforded by “Summer’s” acousmatic nature. Neither unequivocally diegetic nor non-diegetic,
the cue inspires a reading which resonates with much of the growing scholarship on Portrait and draws new connections between aspects of this enormously rich film.
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