Launch Seminar: Literature and the Video Essay

Programme

Adriana Margareta Dancus and Alan O’Leary presents the special issue ‘Literature and the Video Essay: Researching and Teaching Literature Through Moving Images’ of the journal Education, Literature and Language – ELLA.

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USN Drammen, room S4502 (4th floor)

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Background

This forthcoming special issue (January 2025), co-edited by Adriana Margareta Dancus (University of South-Eastern Norway) and Alan O’Leary (Aarhus University), explores how the video essay can function as an academic and pedagogic resource in the study and teaching of literature. We use the term ‘literature’ in a broad sense to encompass different genres and media, including prose and poetry, picture books, comics, animation, feature films, narrative apps, and computer games. Didactic perspectives on literature encompass questions about why and how to teach literature as well as what literary texts to choose from in the language subjects. We adopt a ‘performative’ approach to research whereby the video essay is conceived as a form that generates new theoretical and analytical insights.

The special issue contains twelve video essays with accompanying academic guiding texts (contents below) and an introduction that discusses the tradition of the video essay and considers the potential of the video essay as pedagogical resource.

Video essays and academic guiding texts:
1.
Tatjana Samoilow, Sindre Dagsland and Carl Eltervaag (Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology), ‘Music and place in “The Spring Tune”: Interpretation as improvisation’
2.
Anders Marklund (Lund University), ‘Once Upon a Time There Was a Piece of Wood: The Adaptations of Pinocchio’
3.
Erika Kvistad (Univ. of South-Eastern Norway), ‘A Story About You: Feeling with Interactive Fiction Games’
4.
Anette Hagen (Univ. of South-Eastern Norway), ‘Fortellingens puls: utforsking av rytme i narrative apper’ (The Pulse of the Story: On Rhythm in Narrative Apps)
5.
Adriana Margareta Dancus (Univ. of South-Eastern Norway) and Alina Colman (OsloMet), ‘Monsters: Comics and Eating Disorders’
6.
Solveig Ragnhild Brandal (Univ. of South-Eastern Norway) and Simon Oskar Brandal (HiVolda), ’Når valden visest utanpå: animert kroppsspråk i Sinna mann’ (Facing Domestic Violence: Animated Body Language in Angry Man)
7.
James Walker (Nottingham Trend Univ.), ‘Borrowed Time’
8.
Jialu Zhu (Univ. of Zurich), ‘Virginia Woolf Through Ingmar Bergman: In View of the Stream of Consciousness’
9.
Audhild Norendal (Univ. of South-Eastern Norway), ‘Artslære gjennom lyriske tekster’ (Learning about plant species through lyrical texts)
10.
Maria Casado Villanueva (Univ. of South-Eastern Norway), ‘“Doing Multilingualism”: Aesthetic, Multimodal and Multilingual Encounters in the Language Classroom’
11.
Evelyn Kreutzer (Università della Svizzera Italiana), ‘Moving Poems: “The Most Beautiful Sea”’
12. Drew Morton (Texas A&M Univ. Texarkana), ‘Contemptous Chess (“In the Script It Is Written and On the Screen It’s Pictures”: Teaching Intertextual Adaptation in Alberto Moravia and Jean-Luc Godard’s “Contempts” via Rosario Castellanos’