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标题：New ways of seeing (and hearing): The audiovisual essay and television
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作者：Catherine Grant ; Jaap Kooijman
期刊名称：NECSUS : European Journal of Media Studies
电子版ISSN：2213-0217
出版年度：2019
卷号：2019
期号：1
页码：1-3
出版社：Amsterdam University Press
摘要：In recent years, videographic criticism in the form of remix-based audiovisual essays has gained momentum in Media and Screen Studies, with courses and workshops at universities, presentations at international conferences, and publication opportunities in academic journals such as [in]Transition : Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies , The Cine-Files , 16:9 , Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism , Tecmerin , and NECSUS. While excited by this development, we cannot help but notice that relatively few audiovisual essays deal with television or use televisual images and sounds as source material for study. In the 2017 retrospective issue of [in]Transition , looking back at the first twelve issues published since 2014, Jason Mittell points out that only two of the 58 featured audiovisual essays focus on television: Nick Warr’s ‘ Honolulu Mon Amour” ’ and Lori Morimoto’s ‘ Hannibal: A fanvid ’, both published in 2016. Also NECSUS, which has incorporated an audiovisual essay section since its Autumn 2014 issue, has featured only one contemporary audiovisual essay that can be considered televisual: Juan Daniel F. Molero’s ‘ re-making ’, aptly referring to John Berger’s iconic television series Ways of Seeing (BBC, 1972). As Mittell rightly wonders: ‘[g]iven that contemporary television is often described as more robust, innovative, acclaimed, and culturally important than contemporary cinema, and television studies is more widespread and accepted than ever, why have we not seen examples of a distinctly televisual model of videographic criticism?’.