Theorist Flashcards
• Explores the role of cinematic techniques in shaping gendered experiences and audience identification.
• Concepts: The female body in cinema, voyeurism, the temporality of film.
Mary Ann Doane
• Examines classical cinema techniques, particularly continuity editing and narrative coherence.
• Concepts: Institutional mode of representation (IMR), montage, temporal legibility.
Noel Burch
• Introduced the idea of the “male gaze,” emphasizing the ways visual media objectifies women for male pleasure.
• Concepts: Scopophilia, narcissistic ego identification, gender representation.
Laura Mulvey
• Explores the “Society of the Spectacle,” focusing on how media and imagery dominate social experiences.
• Concepts: Spectacle, commodity fetishism, media as distraction.
Guy Debord
• Explores the cultural history of sound technologies and how they shape listening practices.
• Concepts: Audile technique, sound reproduction, phonofixation.
Jonathan Sterne
• Focuses on the development of electronic sound and its influence on modern media.
• Concepts: Amplification, electronic soundscapes, the studio as a creative site.
David Morton
• Examines how music predicts societal and economic trends, viewing sound as prophetic.
• Concepts: Music as noise, futurity, reproducibility.
Jacques Attali
• Focuses on audio-visual synchronization and how sound creates meaning in cinema and media
• Highlights the importance of audio-visual synchronization in creating emotional meaning.
• Concepts: Synchresis, added value, acousmatic sound, Synchresis, added value, acousmatic sound.
Michel Chion
• Explores how postmodern fragmentation in media affects
narrative and identity.
• Concepts: Pastiche, hybridity,
postmodern fluidity.
E. Ann Kaplan
• Examines how media saturation and spectacle shape contemporary cultural experiences.
• Concepts: Hyperreality, smoothness, image saturation.
Steven Shaviro
• Focuses on how music videos combine audiovisual and narrative elements in innovative ways.
• Concepts: Hybrid spaces, impossible time, intermediality.
Mathias Bonde Korsgaard
• Explores the integration of cultural and social commentary in postmodern media.
• Concepts: Media as commentary, fragmentation, cultural hybridization.
Paolo Peverini
• Developed a framework for analyzing music videos, focusing on relationships between sound and visuals.
• Concepts: Illustration, amplification, disjuncture.
Andrew Goodwin
• Explores how music videos deviate from traditional cinematic
norms.
• Concepts: Visual hooks, parametric form, tactile aesthetics
Carol Vernallis
• Focuses on rhythmic structures and patterns in music video editing.
• Concepts: Parametric rhythm, temporal flow, structural patterns.
Brad Osborn
• Examines how Black representation in early cinema and music videos reflects cultural dynamics.
• Concepts: Black-cast media, cultural authenticity, tropes of Black femininity.
Susan Delson
• Focuses on feminist and queer representations in popular media.
• Concepts: Queerness, celebrity feminism, agency.
Kristy Fairclough
• Highlights the importance of ethnic authenticity and cultural preservation in media.
• Concepts: Representation, cultural hybridity, ethnic identity.
Greg de Cuir
• Explore the intersection of race, gender, and sexuality in music videos.
• Concepts: Objectification, racialized tropes, sexuality of surface.
Railton & Watson
