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Re-Wiring Baltimore: The Emotive Power of Systemics, Seriality, and the City
The Wireis distinguished by the depth of its systemic analysis of Baltimore's urban corruption and by the emotional power it elicits. By presenting so many vibrant characters with enormous potential and showing how our culture is wired to destroy them, it creates serial tragedy with a systemic form of suture.
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Restoring Broken Embraces
Reading Broken Embraces as Almodóvar's 8½, this essay explores its celebration of cinema's resilience at an historic moment when the medium has gone digital and its distribution is being redefined. Almodóvar's remix of earlier films and genres shows how intertextuality generates plot.
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RestoringBroken Embraces
ReadingBroken Embracesas Almodóvar's8½, this essay explores its celebration of cinema's resilience at an historic moment when the medium has gone digital and its distribution is being redefined. Almodóvar's remix of earlier films and genres shows how intertextuality generates plot.
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Reorchestrating History
In 2000, the Labyrinth Project (an art collective and research initiative on interactive narrative)¹ embarked on a collaboration with Hungarian media artist Péter Forgács to turn his sixty-minute, single-channel film,The Danube Exodus,into a large scale, multiscreen immersive installation. Forgács’s film (which was aired on European television in 1997) provided intriguing narrative material: a network of compelling stories, a mysterious river captain whose motives remain unknown, a Central European setting full of rich historical associations, and a hypnotic musical score that created a mesmerizing tone.
Although our expanded adaptation drew on forty hours of footage, both the film and
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Reinventing the Motherland: Almodóvar's Brain-Dead Trilogy
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Flower of My Secretbegins with a training-video for counseling relatives of brain-dead patients. When transplanted toAll About My MotherandTalk to Her, the brain-dead trope launches the plot of the former and flowers as central premise of the latter. It refigures Spain as a motherland through a fascinating interplay between words and bodies.
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Hot Spots, Avatars, and Narrative Fields Forever: Buñuel's Legacy for New Digital Media and Interactive Database Narrative
This essay explores Buñuel's legacy for interactive database narratives and their discreet pleasures. Using Buñuel's 1933 conceptual\" as an interface design for an interactive installation and for adapting his experimentation to cyberspace, the essay analyzes three strategies: 1) Buñuel's reliance on incongruous objects (\"hot spots\") rather than montage as the primary means of navigating from one scene or level to another; 2) his use of puppet-like avatars who don't conform to psychology or narrative logic but are engaging nevertheless; 3) his creation of a narrative field where story possibilities are limitless, repetition and randomness rampant, and search engines motored by desire.
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Uncanny Visions of History: Two Experimental Documentaries from Transnational Spain— Asaltar los cielos and Tren de sombras
On November 8, 1930, Gérard Fleury, an amateur cinematographer in Normandy, went out at dawn to film Lake Thuit. He was never seen or heard from again. On August 20, 1940,Barcelona-born Stalinist Ramón Mercader assassinated Leon Trotsky in Mexico. After spending 20 years in prison, he was buried in Russia under a tombstone marked Ramón Ivanovich López. Fleury and Mercader are \"uncanny\" protagonists of two fascinating Spanish documentaries that explore transnational identity. Functioning as database narratives whose search engines generate a unique network of stories, they excavate lost histories that could potentially change our understanding of the transnational 1990s.
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Honoring the Past and Creating the Future in Hyperspace: New Technologies and Cultural Specificity
After tracing my academic journey from eighteenth-century English literary scholarship to new media production, I interweave three discursive strands: descriptions and demonstrations of several experimental interdisciplinary projects being produced at the Labyrinth Project, a research initiative on interactive narrative that I direct at the University of Southern California Annenberg Center for Communication; five general principles learned while making these projects; and tentative suggestions about how they might be applied to Pacific Islands studies. Despite the diversity of works presented (Mysteries and Desire: Searching the Worlds of John Rechy, an interactive memoir about gay Chicano novelist John Rechy; The Danube Exodus,a museum installation developed in collaboration with Hungarian filmmaker P ter Forg cs; The Dawn at My Back: a Memoir of a Black Texas Upbringing, a DVD-ROM based on an autobiography by African-American photographer Carroll Parrott Blue; an e-learning course on Russian Modernism with an online role-playing game at its center; a computer game for teens called Runaways; and a website called Dreamwaves), all adhere to five basic principles: honoring the past, emphasizing conceptualization over technicalmastery, taking a collaborative approach to interface design, searching for culturally specific metaphors, and leveraging the transformative potential of database narratives.
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Uncanny Visions of History: Two Experimental Documentaries from Transnational Spain—Asaltar los cielosandTren de sombras
On November 8, 1930, Gérard Fleury, an amateur cinematographer in Normandy, went out at dawn to film Lake Thuit. He was never seen or heard from again. On August 20, 1940, Barcelona-born Stalinist Ramón Mercader assassinated Leon Trotsky in Mexico. After spending 20 years in prison, he was buried in Russia under a tombstone marked Ramón Ivanovich López. Fleury and Mercader are \"uncanny\" protagonists of two fascinating Spanish documentaries that explore transnational identity. Functioning as database narratives whose search engines generate a unique network of stories, they excavate lost histories that could potentially change our understanding of the transnational 1990s.
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