Virginia Kuhn

2016

The Video Essay: An Emergent Taxonomy of Cinematic Writing, The Cine-Files: A Scholarly Journal of Cinema Studies. 11.1

How do perceptions of time shift as we move from analogue to digital representations, from the clock’s moving hands to the numbers of digital time?  Is the added precision of numbers a benefit or does it remind us of the relentless passage of time without providing a sense of the whole, as the circular clock face does?  Certainly, the move from image-based to numerical representations of time reflects the increasing reliance on algorithmic processes that characterize contemporary life, while it also mirrors the move from analogue to digital cinema, a shift that informs much of my research, scholarship and pedagogy.

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