Film as "Explicador" for Hypertext.
A few ideas from film theory, most notably Eisenstein's concept of montage, can improve students' understanding of hypertexts and lessen their resistance to open-ended, nonlinear narratives. These structural characteristics, so frustrating to many new readers of hypertext, can also be found in popul...
| Publicado en: | Computers & the Humanities Vol. 38; no. 3; pp. 317 - 334 |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Artículo |
| Publicado: |
Springer Nature
Aug2004
|
| Materias: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Ver este registro en EBSCOhost |
| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=15825058&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 15825058 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00104817 CHM jtl: Computers & the Humanities issn: 00104817 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Aug2004 vid: 38 iid: 3 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 15825058 10.1007/s10579-004-0755-7 ppf: 317 ppct: 17 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 153KB tig: atl: Film as "Explicador" for Hypertext. aug: au: Essid, Joe affil: Writing Center, University of Richmond, VA 23173, USA. su: Hypertext systems Motion pictures Autobiography Reggio, Godfrey Documentary films Cinematographers sug: subj: Hypertext systems Motion pictures Autobiography Reggio, Godfrey Documentary films Cinematographers keyword: documentary film hypertext Koyaanisqatsi montage pedagogy ab: A few ideas from film theory, most notably Eisenstein's concept of montage, can improve students' understanding of hypertexts and lessen their resistance to open-ended, nonlinear narratives. These structural characteristics, so frustrating to many new readers of hypertext, can also be found in popular and experimental films. In particular, Godfrey Reggio's (1983) documentary "Koyaanisqatsi" provides a good starting point for merging hypertext and film theory. "Koyaanisqatsi" not only broke new ground for documentary film; its structure also resembles Landow's model for an axial hypertext. At the same time, techniques pioneered by Landow, Joyce, Guyer, and others involved in creating and critiquing hypertext can be used to examine film. Having students look closely at "Koyaanisqatsi's" composition allows them to become amateur cinematographers, who now possess software for breaking a film down and examining its composition, montage, transitions, subliminal messages, and motifs—a process that may then be applied to hypertext. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Computers & the Humanities is a copyright of Springer, 2004. All Rights Reserved. item: Computers & the Humanities holder: Springer Nature dt: @attributes: year: 2004 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
|---|