http://english236-w2008.pbwiki.com/ Wiki for UCSB English 236, "Literature+" (Winter 2008, Prof. Alan Liu) en http://english236-w2008.pbwiki.com/feedlogo.gif http://pbwiki.com/ PBwiki 3.7 support@pbwiki.com http://english236-w2008.pbwiki.com/The+Sonnet+Virus no.email.given@example.com (Anonymous) Anonymous edited The Sonnet Virus]]> Thu, 08 May 2008 14:27:50 +0000 mod http://english236-w2008.pbwiki.com/Comics no.email.given@example.com (Alan Liu) Alan Liu edited Comics Team Members (l to r): Katie Kelp-Stebbins, Dan Reynolds, Christopher Hagenah
Background:
The precarity precariousness of comics as a worthy and unique medium has limited the development of vocabulary and methodology for its critical study. Recently comics have been referred to as the ninth art (there is some debate about the eighth), and many theorists write as if they have to work against the decades of derision to conclusively demonstrate the medium's artfulness. We reject many of the descriptive terms used to designate different types of comics: Graphic Novel--is an attempt to elevate comics by equating them with a literary genre, a type of novel. Comics are not simply literature with pictures. Sequential Art--is an attempt to describe the aesthetics of comics from a graphics stance, a type of pictures. Comics are not simply pictures in order. Once we begin to understand why comics are not easily confined by the terms of other media, we can develop new avenues for study and an]]> Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:42:50 +0000 mod http://english236-w2008.pbwiki.com/Berlin%3A+Filmic+Models no.email.given@example.com (Dan Reynolds) Dan Reynolds edited Berlin: Filmic Models It is unusual in film for attention to be drawn toward cutting rhythm; most film, in fact, works to obscure the edits that join shots. In that way, "Panel length with snare" might be seen as somewhat anti-filmic. However, the snare sound does draw attention to a kind of rhythm that is inherent to all edited film. This increased attention to form also helps us to think about the rhythms of the comic-book page, rhythms to which we are (normally) less-attuned even than we are to the editing rhythms of films.
The temporailty of the film does not seem to correspond to the assumed diegetic temporality. We can assume that everything that occurs in the sequence in the comic takes place in a small amount of time (perhaps as little as the 25 seconds of screen time), but the unfolding of events throughout the sequence do not always seem to fit the way we are inclined to imagine them when we see them on the comic page. Some moments, such as the three-shot sequence--the shortest in the film--in which the]]> Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:41:18 +0000 mod http://english236-w2008.pbwiki.com/Berlin%3A+Filmic+Models no.email.given@example.com (Anonymous) Anonymous edited Berlin: Filmic Models Inverse fibonacci arc
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progression. It It is somewhat common in film for a sequence to change its editing rhythms as it progresses; perhaps most often, the editing accelerates throughout a sequence before finally slowing down for a final shot or two. We We didn't want to impose a common filmic form on the sequence: it seemed more interesting to give the sequence a general temporal pattern and see how it worked with the shot scales and narrative progression of the sequence.
The proportional shot lengths of the sequences are 1-1-2-3-5-8-13-21-13-8-5-3-2-1-1 and 21-13-8-5-3-2-1-1-(0)-1-1-2-3-5-8-13-21; the two resultant rhythmic sequences (rising and falling or falling and rising in editing speed) are very influential in how the sequences comes across. This This is especially true of the shots at the middles of the sequences; in the first sequence, the action builds up to its longest-held shot, which gives that shot a f]]> Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:38:44 +0000 mod http://english236-w2008.pbwiki.com/Salman+Bakht no.email.given@example.com (Anonymous) Anonymous edited Salman Bakht Salman is interested in researching music composition using sample-based synthesis and sound analysis, the use of signal processing and statistical techniques to explore the abstract and referential characteristics of recorded sound within the context of a musical piece. Within this course, Salman hopes to study the interaction between abstract and referential qualities of a literary work as being simultaneously a sampling of language, a series of sound events (when spoken), and a narrative construct.
Personal Website
Alice Adaptation Project
Bibliography
Research Report: Alice's Adventures in Intermedia Collage
New Media Nonsense
Alice Adaptation Project Team Page
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New Media Nonsense
Alice Adaptation Project Team Page
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Research Report: Alice's Adventures in Intermedia Collage
New Media Nonsense
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Two text montage documents were derived from the film montage, as well. The one focused on within this text includes the following description:
clips represe represented in our group's "Alice Adaptation" film montage. We began this process by creating a master Word document that identified each montage clip, and which listed below each clip any possible corresponding passages from Carroll's Alice work. After compiling ths master document, we created this edited tr]]> Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:32:34 +0000 mod http://english236-w2008.pbwiki.com/New+Media+Nonsense no.email.given@example.com (Anonymous) Anonymous edited New Media Nonsense 3.3 Text Montage
Two text montage documents were derived from the film montage, as well. The one focused on within this text includes the following description:
clips represented in our group's "Alice Adaptation" film montage. We began this process by creating a master Word document that identified each montage clip, and which listed below each clip any possible corresponding passages from Carroll's Alice work. After compiling ths master document, we created this edited transcript]]> Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:29:18 +0000 mod http://english236-w2008.pbwiki.com/New+Media+Nonsense no.email.given@example.com (Anonymous) Anonymous edited New Media Nonsense Lecercle, Jean-Jacques. "Introduction: Reading Nonsense Reading." Philosophy of Nonsense: The Intuitions of Victorian Nonsense Literature, 1-26. New York: Routledge, 1994.
Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media. The MIT Press. 2001. 16 March 2008 .
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(1) The term “collage” is used within this text to describe the work (in its entirety) developed by the Alice Adaptation Project. This term, as opposed to “montage,” was chosen to avoid the suggestion of an intended filmic orientation. “Collage” used here is intended to suggest only an artistic creation combining multiple media sources and not to imply a lack of continuity, as is often the usage in visual art. The term “montage” is used in the text to refer specifically to film montage techniques and the usage of the term in The Language of New Media (Manovich). Purely out of the traditions of the specific media and of the project's past practices, the terms “film montage,” “sound collage,” and “text mont]]> Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:24:45 +0000 mod http://english236-w2008.pbwiki.com/New+Media+Nonsense no.email.given@example.com (Anonymous) Anonymous edited New Media Nonsense]]> Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:23:33 +0000 mod http://english236-w2008.pbwiki.com/New+Media+Nonsense no.email.given@example.com (Anonymous) Anonymous edited New Media Nonsense Lecercle, Jean-Jacques. "Introduction: Reading Nonsense Reading." Philosophy of Nonsense: The Intuitions of Victorian Nonsense Literature, 1-26. New York: Routledge, 1994.
Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media. The MIT Press. 2001. 16 March 2008 .
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(1) The term “collage” is used within this text to describe the work (in its entirety) developed by the Alice Adaptation Project. This term, as opposed to “montage,” was chosen to avoid the suggestion of an intended filmic orientation. “Collage” used here is intended to suggest only an artistic creation combining multiple media sources and not to imply a lack of continuity, as is often the usage in visual art. The term “montage” is used in the text to refer specifically to film montage techniques and the usage of the term in The Language of New Media (Manovich). Purely out of the traditions of the specific media and of the project's past practices, the terms “film montage,” “sound collage,” and “text mont]]> Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:22:54 +0000 mod http://english236-w2008.pbwiki.com/New+Media+Nonsense no.email.given@example.com (Anonymous) Anonymous edited New Media Nonsense Lecercle, Jean-Jacques. "Introduction: Reading Nonsense Reading." Philosophy of Nonsense: The Intuitions of Victorian Nonsense Literature, 1-26. New York: Routledge, 1994.
Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media. The MIT Press. 2001. 16 March 2008 .
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(1) The term “collage” is used within this text to describe the work (in its entirety) developed by the Alice Adaptation Project. This term, as opposed to “montage,” was chosen to avoid the suggestion of an intended filmic orientation. “Collage” used here is intended to suggest only an artistic creation combining multiple media sources and not to imply a lack of continuity, as is often the usage in visual art. The term “montage” is used in the text to refer specifically to film montage techniques and the usage of the term in The Language of New Media (Manovich). Purely out of the traditions of the specific media and of the project's past practices, the terms “film montage,” “sound collage,” and “text monta]]> Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:22:43 +0000 mod http://english236-w2008.pbwiki.com/New+Media+Nonsense no.email.given@example.com (Anonymous) Anonymous edited New Media Nonsense Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media. The MIT Press. 2001. 16 March 2008 .
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(1)The(1) The term “collage” is used within this text to describe the work (in its entirety) developed by the Alice Adaptation Project. This term, as opposed to “montage,” was chosen to avoid the suggestion of an intended filmic orientation. “Collage” used here is intended to suggest only an artistic creation combining multiple media sources and not to imply a lack of continuity, as is often the usage in visual art. The term “montage” is used in the text to refer specifically to film montage techniques and the usage of the term in The Language of New Media (Manovich). Purely out of the traditions of the specific media and of the project's past practices, the terms “film montage,” “sound collage,” and “text montage” are used to describe the individual media elements combined to create the work.
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Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media. The MIT Press. 2001. 16 March 2008 .
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(1)The term “collage” is used within this text to describe the work (in its entirety) developed by the Alice Adaptation Project. This term, as opposed to “montage,” was chosen to avoid the suggestion of an intended filmic orientation. “Collage” used here is intended to suggest only an artistic creation combining multiple media sources and not to imply a lack of continuity, as is often the usage in visual art. The term “montage” is used in the text to refer specifically to film montage techniques and the usage of the term in The Language of New Media (Manovich). Purely out of the traditions of the specific media and of the project's past practices, the terms “film montage,” “sound collage,” and “text montage” a]]> Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:15:55 +0000 mod http://english236-w2008.pbwiki.com/New+Media+Nonsense no.email.given@example.com (Anonymous) Anonymous edited New Media Nonsense 1 Introduction
Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, a work of literary nonsense written in 1865, has inspired adaptation in various media for over 100 years. Beginning with the 1903 film directed by Cecil M. Hepworth, there have been dozens of film adaptations, yet there are still at least two Hollywood adaptations in development (Alice, directed by Marcus Nispel, and Alice in Wonderland, directed by Tim Burton) (Internet Movie Database). Adaptations in other media range from American McGee's Alice videogame (Internet Movie Database) to the massive collection of musical works by David Del Tredici (Del Tredici).
a collage1 collage (1) work drawing from film visual, film soundtrack, and the original text. Specifically, the project uses the technique of collage to examine how nonsense is created within the literary text and how this element of nonsense is translated into various media.
2 Conceptual Development
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!!! By [Salman Bakht], [Alice Adaptation Project] Team

!!Abstract
The Alice Adaptation Project explores literary nonsense and the process of adaptation through the creation of a multimedia collage work (film, music, and text) combining elements of the original literary nonsense work, \'\'Alice\'s Adventures in Wonderland\'\', by Lewis Carroll, and multiple film adaptations. The collage process used combines systematic and interpretive techniques to itself create nonsense. This process, corresponding to the new media art techniques described by Lev Manovich in \'\'The Language of New Media\'\', reveals a relation between narratives and databases as a nonsense occurrence.

!!1 Introduction
Lewis Carroll\'s Alice\'s Adventures in Wonderland, a work of literary nonsense written in 1865, has inspired adaptation in various media for over 100 years. Beginning with the 1903 film directed by Cecil M. Hepworth, there ]]> Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:06:08 +0000 add http://english236-w2008.pbwiki.com/Interpretive+or+Methodological+Essays no.email.given@example.com (Anonymous) Anonymous edited Interpretive or Methodological Essays (in alphabetical order by author)
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Salman Bakht, "New Media Nonsense: Experiments in Collage Adaptation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
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