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Research Background – First Phase Research Background – First Phase
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Research Background – Second Phase Research Background – Second Phase
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The Elephant Man: an audiovisual essay The Elephant Man: an audiovisual essay
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The Elephant Man’s Sound, Tracked The Elephant Man’s Sound, Tracked
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Velvet Elephant Velvet Elephant
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Do It for Van Gogh: Detecting and Perverting the Audience Position in David Lynch’s Blue Velvet (1986) Do It for Van Gogh: Detecting and Perverting the Audience Position in David Lynch’s Blue Velvet (1986)
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Dorothy, Isabella, Dorothy Dorothy, Isabella, Dorothy
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Conclusion Conclusion
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Note Note
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Bibliography Bibliography
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12 Researching Audiovisually: Experiments in Videographic Criticism in David Lynch’s The Elephant Man and Blue Velvet1
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Published:January 2023
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Abstract
This chapter illustrates where some of the tensions lie between the poetic and explanatory modes in videographic criticism. It will further extend this to include a discussion of the ‘exploratory’ mode in videographic criticism when considering five audiovisual essays about David Lynch’s The Elephant Man (1980) and Blue Velvet (1986). The combination of images, sounds and text in the audiovisual essay allows a researcher, as Keathley holds, to ‘re-imagine the very relationship between a cinematic object of study and critical commentary about it’. Catherine Grant later labelled this a form of ‘material thinking’. Developing on the work of Keathley and Grant, this chapter explores how videographic criticism offers a more rigorous audiovisual process for research than traditional scholarly methods and will also argue that this form of research production offers a broader opportunity for the dissemination of research. All five of the audiovisual essays discussed here are the result of experiments in form: form that follows content, and form that follows process.
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