Writing About Screen Media presents strategies for writing about a broad range of media objects – including film, television, social media, advertising, video games, mobile media, music videos, and digital media – in an equally broad range of formats. The book’s case studies showcase media studies’ geographical and industrial breadth, with essays covering topics as varied as: Brazilian telenovelas, K-pop music videos, Bombay cinema credit sequences, global streaming services, film festivals, archives, and more. With the expertise of over forty esteemed media scholars, the collection combines personal reflections about writing with practical advice. Writing About Screen Media reflects the diversity of screen media criticism and encourages both beginning and established writers to experiment with content and form. Through its unprecedented scope, this volume will engage not only those who may be writing about film and other screen media for the first time but also accomplished writers who are interested in exploring new screen media objects, new approaches to writing about media, and new formats for critical expression.
Author(s): Lisa Patti
Publisher: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 247
Tags: Mass Media Criticism, Media Studies
The big picture : strategies for writing about screen media / Lisa Patti --
From screen aesthetics to site design : analyzing form across screen media / Lisa Patti --
Entering the conversation : how and where to develop a critical argument --
From notebook to network : when and how to use digital tools / Lisa Patti --
Writing about transnational cinema : Crazy rich Asians / Olivia Khoo --
Capturing moments : writing about film festivals as events / Kirsten Stevens --
Writing about experimental cinema : Andy Warhol's Empire (1964) / Glyn Davis --
From meaning to effect : writing about archival footage / Jaimie Baron --
Making the absent present : writing about nonextant media / Allyson Nadia Field --
Expressing race in Brazilian telenovelas / Jasmine Mitchell --
Writing about music video : tracing the ephemeral / Carol Vernallis --
Writing across divides : locating power in K-Pop music videos / S. Heijin Lee --
Playing to write : analyzing video games / TreaAndrea M. Russworm and Jennifer Malkowski --
When it all clicks : writing about participatory media / Lauren S. Berliner --
Feeling out social media / Julie Wilson and Emily Chivers Yochim --
"A very black project" : a method for digital visual culture / Lauren McLeod Cramer --
Writing about transnational media : from representation to materiality / Fan Yang --
Writing about digital and interactive media / Dale Hudson and Patricia R. Zimmermann --
(Un)limited mobilities / Rahul Mukherjee --
Context is key : how (and why) you should write about outdoor advertising / Beth Corzo-Duchardt --
How sound helps tell a story : sound, music, and narrative in Vishal Bhardwaj's Omkara / Nilanjana Bhattacharjya --
Writing outside the text : a cultural approach to exhibition and moviegoing / Jasmine Nadua Trice --
Writing about streaming portals : the drama of distribution / Ramon Lobato --
Analyzing and writing about credit sequences / Monika Mehta --
"We are not thinking frogs" : the archive, the artifact, and the task of the film historian / Katherine Groo --
Show me the data! : uncovering the evidence in screen media industry research / Bronwyn Coate and Deb Verhoeven --
Researching and writing across media industries / Derek Johnson --
The value of surprise : ethnography of media industries / Tejaswini Ganti --
Listen up! : interviewing as method / Alicia Kozma --
The need for translation : difference, footnotes, hyperlinks / Tijana Mamula --
Words and more : strategies for writing about and with media / Virginia Kuhn --
Best practices for screen media podcasting / Christine Becker and Kyle Wrather --
Confessions of an academic blogger / Henry Jenkins --
The research and the remix : video essays as creative criticism / Jeffrey Middents --
Foregrounding the invisible : notes on the video essay review / Chiara Grizzaffi --
Review, edit, repeat : writing and editing book reviews / Alice Leppert --
Extracurricular scholarship : "writing" my audio commentary of losing ground / Terri Francis --
The short, sweet art of blurb writing / Leah Shafer --
Bridging the gaps between scholarly essays and mass-market film writing / Nick Davis --
Writing across the page without a line / Holly Willis.
