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RECOMMENDED BIBLIOGRAPHYBooks & Articles
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Language, Memory & the Narrative:
1. Bachelard, Gaston. Poetics of Space: The classic look at how we experience
intimate Places. (Boston: Beacon Press, 1969) First publication by Presses
Universitaires de France, 1958.
Bachelard takes a look at how spaces such as houses, drawers,
shells, etc… occupy meaning in the memories and impressions of an experience
we hold. He gives us a surprising new understanding of how spaces we inhabit
and contain us can create “a pure form of language” ….poetry
2. Barthes, Roland. The Grain of Voice: Interviews 1962-1980. (New
York: Hill & Wang, 1985.) Originally published as Le grain de la voix
by Editions du Seuil, Paris. 1981.
3. Barthes, Roland. Mythologies. Trans. Annette Lavers. (First published
by Editions du Seuil, Paris. 1957) New York: Hill & Wang, 1972.
Barthes dissects the myth and its use in semiological language.
Stating many examples of how myth is used to cultivate ideologies and social
psyche in social speech by using semiotic principles such as sign, signified,
signifier…barthes shows us how myth can hold form in language. A sign
is a concrete placement of meaning & it is a combination of form &
content but indirect of itself. This book is utilized to understand criticial
language in word/imagery & the power of the word/image.
4. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. Faust: The Prologues and Part One(Bilingual
Edition in German and English) Trans.Bayard Taylor. New York: Collier
Books, 1966.
Excerpts used for spoken text audio composition.
5. Kristeva, Julia. "Narcissus: Outline of the Myth". Tales
of Love. NewYork: Columbia University Press, 1987. pp.101-121
A psychoanalytic and semiotic approach to the tale of Narcissus.
6. Kristeva, Julia. Desire in Language. New York: Columbia University
Press, 1980.
A semiotic approach to language and writing. Kristeva, the
feminine counterpart of Barthes is known for her psychoanalytic approach to
linguistics.
7. Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media. (Massachusetts:The MIT
Press, 2001)
Manovich’s theories explore the conventions of the visual/media
cultures and how our reliance on past conventions have given offspring to
a new language which attempts to in viewer interactivity, illusions of reality.
8. Nichols, Bill, ed. Maya Deren and the American Avant-Garde. Berkley:
University of California Press, 2001.
Twelve essays exploring the writings, works and film theory
of Maya Deren, who aside from being a ethnographer, an inspiration for AvantGarde
filmmakers by exploring new editing techniques and camera angles, utilized
her role as female artist to explore the territory of self as mirror and multiple
personalities. Her work, Meshes of the Afternoon, places her in a similar
category as Anais Nin.
9. Zapp, Andrea and Martin Reiser, ed. New Screen Media: Cinema/Art/Narrative.
London: British Film Institute, 2002.
A collection of articles written by various artists and philosophers
on the theory of converging of new media and cinema and how its divergent
effects have restructured or replaced elements of the traditional voice, such
as narrative, audience roles, perception, etc…
10. Reiser, Martin. “The Poetics of Interactivity: The Uncertainty Principle.”
New Screen Media: Cinema/Art/Narrative. 2002: 146-163.CD-Rom, Online
Databases:
11. Baudrillard, Jean "Xerox and Infinity" pages 5. 6. ISBN 0-33701-88-9
Touchepas. Originally published as Le Xerox et L´Infini, Paris
1987 . Paul Sermon. Online.
12. Brady, Nicole. Maya Deren--Critical Response Survey. Online.
13. “Surrealist Film” The Art and Culture Network. Online
Database. 1999-2003.
14. Fordham, Frieda. An Introduction to Jung's Psychology. NewYork:
Penguin Putnam
Books, 1966. CGJung Page. Online. 1995.<http://www.cgjungpage.org/fordhamintro.html>
Fordham, with permission from Jung, writes to clarify any misunderstanding
of Jungian Psychology interpretation.
15. Freud, Sigmund. The Interpretation of Dreams. (3rd Edition) Translated
by A.A. Brill. New York: Carlton House,1913. Psych Web. Online.
1995. <http://www.psywww.com/books/interp/toc.htm>
“Dreams according to Freudian theory: dreams represent the hidden fulfillment
of our unconscious wishes. Scientific of dream-problems, method of dream interpretations,
dreams as wish-fulfillment, distrotion in dreams, material and sources of
dreams, dream-work, psychology of the dream-process. “
16. Manovich, Lev. “Database as Symbolic Form”. Millenium
Film Journal: The Digital. No 34. Online. Fall 1999.
Theory about the nature of the database logic and language
in interactive cinema narratives. A new way to look at restructuring the world
and ourselves.
17. Wienbren, Grahame. “Telepolis: The Digital Revolution is a Revolution
of Random Access.” Millenium Film Journal. No.28, Interactivities.
Spring 1995. MFJ. Online.
18. Wienbren, Grahame. “In the Ocean of Streams of Story.” Millenium
Film Journal. No.28, Interactivities. Spring 1995. MFJ. Online.
19. Xavier , Marlon. “Dream Interpretation in Jung’s Theory: A
Comparative Analysis” December of 1996. CG Jung Institut – Zurich.
CG Jung Page. Online. 1995.
Videos
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20. Persona. Dir. Ingmar Bergman. With Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullman.
1966.
An "existential drama on the topic of the double and the
mask" where two women are trapped and lose themselves in each other.
Another movie in which Bergman blurs the distinction between reality and the
dream.
21. Orpheus. Dir. Jean Cocteau. 1949.
The tale of the poet, Orpheus, who is trapped in the Underworld,
falls in love with Death and must find his way out.
22. 3 Meshes of the Afternoon. Dir. Maya Deren. 1943.
23. Mulhulland Drive. Dir. David Lynch. With Naomi Watts and Laura
Herring. Universal Pictures, 1999.
A dark story of two women who fall in love while searching
for fame in Hollywood and recovering the mysterious identities of who they
really are. A typical Lynch film with twists of fate, fragmented storytelling,
questions of reality or dream, and again…a dwarf.
Cited
Art Works and Interactive Performances:
1. Hershman, Lynn. Deep Contact.
2. Hershman, Lynn. Lorna.
3. Hershman, Lynn. A Room of One’s Own.
4. Sermon, Paul. Telematic Dreaming.
5. Weinbren, Grahame. Sonata.
6. Nin, Anais. House of Incest.
Swallow Press/Ohio University Press edition. 1979.
Excerpts used for a spoken text audio composition.
7. Barthes, Roland. A Lover's Discourse :Fragments. Translate by
Richard Howard. New York: Hill & Wang, 1977.
The language of Lover’s Discourse is recollections and
varied states of being of the lover when he is alone with himself to think
and contemplate. Barthes analyses the language of this discourse through the
critical form of writings by other authors.