Books by Jeff Scheible
Papers by Jeff Scheible
Deep Mediations: Thinking Space in Cinema and Digital Cultures, 2021
This book chapter reads enmeshments of "depth effects"--technological, aesthetic, and epistemolog... more This book chapter reads enmeshments of "depth effects"--technological, aesthetic, and epistemological depths--in Citizen Kane alongside and against those in Citizenfour, suggesting that these are central to the films' complex appeals.
Media Fields Journal, 2021
In this journal's first issue, Joshua Neves and I brought together pieces reflecting on the video... more In this journal's first issue, Joshua Neves and I brought together pieces reflecting on the video store as a "media field": a site where media are spatially organized but also a field in the discursive, epistemological sense, in which knowledge about film history and the discipline of film studies are, or were, produced. As video stores have vanished almost entirely in the decade since then, I have been especially curious to observe what happens to videos when the video stores housing them close. Prompted by the strange story of the migration of fifty-five thousand videos in the collection of Kim's Video in New York City (where I used to work) to the Sicilian town Salemi, I asked in a subsequent article what we might learn from studying the lifecycles of video. 1 The Media Fields issue included a brief interview with members of Everything Is Terrible! (EIT!), a group of pop culture enthusiasts who manage a blog, featuring a daily clip digitized from a VHS they've discovered while thrift shopping or scouring closing video stores. They run various side projects too, such as curated screenings around the world and a series of performance art pieces designed to culminate in an absurdist sculpture, The
Communication, Culture & Critique, 2020
Shoe Reels: The History and Philosophy of Footwear in Film, 2020
This book chapter looks at Spike Lee's ongoing, complex relationship with NIKE, across film, tele... more This book chapter looks at Spike Lee's ongoing, complex relationship with NIKE, across film, television, and social media, from the 1980s to the 2010s.
The Routledge Companion to Media and Risk, 2020
This chapter examines Laura Poitras’s 2017 documentary Risk about Julian Assange, paying close at... more This chapter examines Laura Poitras’s 2017 documentary Risk about Julian Assange, paying close attention to an awkwardly comedic scene included in the film in which pop star Lady Gaga visits Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and interviews him in his makeshift bedroom. On the surface, the scene offers light comic relief from a film that is otherwise quite serious. Yet at the same time, it resonates with the documentary’s core tensions more generally and its own fraught production history, posing a series of unsettling questions about celebrities and gender difference in the popular imaginary, particularly in the context of #MeToo activism. The chapter analyzes how celebrity, cultural form, and the logic of infotainment intersect to both manage and defer the messy problems of risk society, information capitalism, and contemporary media.
Canadian Journal of Film Studies, 2014
Depuis le début des années 2000, il y a eu un nombre grandissant de fermetures de clubs vidéos pa... more Depuis le début des années 2000, il y a eu un nombre grandissant de fermetures de clubs vidéos partout en Amérique du Nord, phénomène qui indique une transformation importante du paysage médiatique qui concorde avec la hausse de la distribution numérique, avec un changement de la culture filmique et avec une économie en transformation. Plutôt que de s'engager sur les chemins souvent fréquentés de cette grande histoire, cet article s'intéresse aux pistes, souvent surprenantes et peu documentées, qui suivent la trajectoire des copies lorsqu'on ferme boutique. Pour ce faire, j'esquisse une théorie de la redistribution des médias et explore une esthétique de la redistribution. Cette esthétique nous permet de rendre compte de la relation qui existe entre la mutation du paysage médiatique et les pratiques culturelles qui remodèlent le rapport entre les "nouveaux" et les "vieux" médias. J'adopte une méthodologie variée, qui combine une enquête spécifique au terrain de recherche et une investigation esthétique. En suivant le destin des "vidéos après les clubs vidéos" à travers trois champs distincts, ceux du commerce de redistribution au détail, du monde de l'art et de l'Internet, on peut voir se dessiner une commune logique qui les traverse.
American Literature, Dec 2013
This new human being in the process of being born all around us and within us is in fact without ... more This new human being in the process of being born all around us and within us is in fact without hands. He does not handle things anymore, so in his case one cannot speak of actions anymore. Nor of practice, nor of work for that matter. The only things left of his hands are the tips of his fingers, which he uses to tap on keys so as to play with symbols. -Vilém Flusser, "The Non-Thing 1" (1999) We often associate the digital humanities with stud ies that involve large amounts of data, the instrumentalization of computing technologies to quantify and visualize long-term patterns, and interdisciplinary, collaborative, and/or networked research endeavors. Not taking this for granted, I attempt in this article to approach the digital humanities from another side and to make a modest contribution to efforts to reorient the scales of discourse and ideas in the digital humanities' conceptual radius. I wish to direct our attention to kinds of work that do not require visualizing large amounts of data or conducting long-term, collaborative research but, rather, to work that tends to involve close reading, comparative thinking, theoretical inquiry, and critical reflection. I echo the concern voiced by Alan Liu (2012) when he asks where cultural criticism is in the digital humanities. While the methods and approaches of big data and cultural criticism are not necessarily at odds, the status of the latter group is certainly less cultivated in conversations about what the digital humanities are and what they should do. As I embark on the following series of readings, then, in the context of this special issue, I invite my reader to imagine the ways it is important to hold onto the humanities in the "digital humanities," to On Parentheticality across Media 691 the stylized romantic comedy (500) Days of Summer (2009) to alert us to the film's disjointed presentation of different days of its protagonists' (non)relationship.
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory, 2013
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory, 2013
Old and New Media After Katrina, ed. Diane Negra, 2010
Edited Journal issue by Jeff Scheible
Media Fields Journal, Dec 2010
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