Peer-reviewed Articles by Kevin B Lee
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Quarterly Review of Film and Video, vol. 40. no. 5, 2023
Article available here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10509208.2022.2033066?journal... more Article available here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10509208.2022.2033066?journalCode=gqrf20
Desktop documentary has firmly established itself as a reflexive form that directly addresses the screen-mediated nature of our lives. This genre on the border between film theory and practice treats the computer/mobile screen as both a camera lens and a canvas and seeks to depict and question how we explore the world through the screen. Crucially, unlike previous forms of cinematic theoretical practice, such as the 1970s counter-cinema, desktop documentary incorporates both reflexivity and narrativization. While it lays bare the inner workings of the apparatus, at the same time, it assimilates them into a relatively coherent and accessible narrative.
This paper aims to understand how this paradoxical marriage between reflexivity and narrativization works. In which ways can the desktop documentary genre be reconceived as a successor to the 1970s counter-cinema, and in which ways does it constitute a break from it? A term that will enable us to stage an encounter between the old and the new, narrativization and reflexivity, revealing and concealing, is suture. This concept and its recent revisions will present desktop documentary as a staged process of welding together elements surfacing and resurfacing on the screen that brings the author, the apparatus, and the spectator on the same plane.
Papers by Kevin B Lee
Edinburgh University Press eBooks, Dec 30, 2023
Necsus. European Journal of Media Studies, 2017
Im Jahr 2018 erstellt Filmemacher, Medienkunstler und Professor fur Crossmedia Publishing Kevin B... more Im Jahr 2018 erstellt Filmemacher, Medienkunstler und Professor fur Crossmedia Publishing Kevin B. Lee ein Video-Essay uber den britischen Journalisten John Cantlie, der 2012 in Syrien verschleppt wurde. Zwischen 2014 und 2016 trat Cantlie in Videos des IS auf und verfasste (vorgeblich) Artikel im IS-Magazin Dabiq. In diesem Beitrag gibt Lee Auskunft uber seinen Zugang zu Cantlie und dessen medialer Agency als Person und Gegenstand der Recherche und der Konzeption des Video-Essays. Dabei rekonstruiert und reflektiert er das Erleben seiner eigenen Rolle als Betrachter, Adressierter und Verwerter der medialen Spuren Cantlies sowie dessen kolonialer/kolonialisierter Berufs- und Familiengeschichte im Lichte von Konzepten wie dem der Parasozialitat und der Spectatorship.
Spuren eines Dritten Kinos, 2013
Cineaste on Film Criticism, Programming, and Preservation in the New Millennium, 2017
The State of Post-Cinema, 2016
Kevin B. Lee takes his celebrated video essay Transformers: The PreMake (USA 2014) (https://vimeo... more Kevin B. Lee takes his celebrated video essay Transformers: The PreMake (USA 2014) (https://vimeo.com/94101046 (December 13, 2015)) as the point of departure for the consideration of how the ecology of moving image culture functions today. While this magisterial work shows the intricately intertwined levels of film production, from big budget blockbusters to smartphone footage, Lee disassembles the work and reflects on the process of discovery that was as much artistic as it was scholarly. In fact, both the written and the filmic essay are not identifiable exclusively as either works of art or of scholarship.
Zu Ästhetik, Politik und Ökonomie des World Cinema
Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 2022
Article available here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10509208.2022.2033066?journal... more Article available here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10509208.2022.2033066?journalCode=gqrf20 Desktop documentary has firmly established itself as a reflexive form that directly addresses the screen-mediated nature of our lives. This genre on the border between film theory and practice treats the computer/mobile screen as both a camera lens and a canvas and seeks to depict and question how we explore the world through the screen. Crucially, unlike previous forms of cinematic theoretical practice, such as the 1970s counter-cinema, desktop documentary incorporates both reflexivity and narrativization. While it lays bare the inner workings of the apparatus, at the same time, it assimilates them into a relatively coherent and accessible narrative. This paper aims to understand how this paradoxical marriage between reflexivity and narrativization works. In which ways can the desktop documentary genre be reconceived as a successor to the 1970s counter-cinema, and in which ways does it constitute a break from it? A term that will enable us to stage an encounter between the old and the new, narrativization and reflexivity, revealing and concealing, is suture. This concept and its recent revisions will present desktop documentary as a staged process of welding together elements surfacing and resurfacing on the screen that brings the author, the apparatus, and the spectator on the same plane.
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Peer-reviewed Articles by Kevin B Lee
Desktop documentary has firmly established itself as a reflexive form that directly addresses the screen-mediated nature of our lives. This genre on the border between film theory and practice treats the computer/mobile screen as both a camera lens and a canvas and seeks to depict and question how we explore the world through the screen. Crucially, unlike previous forms of cinematic theoretical practice, such as the 1970s counter-cinema, desktop documentary incorporates both reflexivity and narrativization. While it lays bare the inner workings of the apparatus, at the same time, it assimilates them into a relatively coherent and accessible narrative.
This paper aims to understand how this paradoxical marriage between reflexivity and narrativization works. In which ways can the desktop documentary genre be reconceived as a successor to the 1970s counter-cinema, and in which ways does it constitute a break from it? A term that will enable us to stage an encounter between the old and the new, narrativization and reflexivity, revealing and concealing, is suture. This concept and its recent revisions will present desktop documentary as a staged process of welding together elements surfacing and resurfacing on the screen that brings the author, the apparatus, and the spectator on the same plane.
Papers by Kevin B Lee
Desktop documentary has firmly established itself as a reflexive form that directly addresses the screen-mediated nature of our lives. This genre on the border between film theory and practice treats the computer/mobile screen as both a camera lens and a canvas and seeks to depict and question how we explore the world through the screen. Crucially, unlike previous forms of cinematic theoretical practice, such as the 1970s counter-cinema, desktop documentary incorporates both reflexivity and narrativization. While it lays bare the inner workings of the apparatus, at the same time, it assimilates them into a relatively coherent and accessible narrative.
This paper aims to understand how this paradoxical marriage between reflexivity and narrativization works. In which ways can the desktop documentary genre be reconceived as a successor to the 1970s counter-cinema, and in which ways does it constitute a break from it? A term that will enable us to stage an encounter between the old and the new, narrativization and reflexivity, revealing and concealing, is suture. This concept and its recent revisions will present desktop documentary as a staged process of welding together elements surfacing and resurfacing on the screen that brings the author, the apparatus, and the spectator on the same plane.