WRITING ABOUT SCREEN MEDIA

Part I. New Frameworks for Writing about Screen Media

Lisa Patti

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1. Introduction

(Still) Learning to Write about Screen Media 

How to Read This Book

In Practice

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2. The Big Picture: Strategies for Writing about Screen Media

Collaborate

Frame 

Curate

Follow (up)

In Practice

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3. From Screen Aesthetics to Site Design: Analyzing Form Across Screen Media

Taking Notes 

Close Readings: Case Studies

In Practice

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4. Entering the Conversation: How and Where to Develop a Critical Argument

What is an Argument?

Thinking on the Page: Free Writing

Structuring Your Argument: Outlines

Setting the Scene: Introductions

Telling a Story: Evidence

Making a Last(ing) Impression: Conclusions 

In Practice

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5. From Notebook to Network: When and How to Use Digital Tools

Digital Resources: Reading, Watching, Writing

In Praise of Paper

Citation 

Fair Use

In Practice　

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Part II. Writers on Writing about Screen Media

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OBJECTS AND EVENTS

6. Writing about Transnational Cinema: Crazy Rich Asians

Olivia Khoo 

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7. Capturing Moments: Writing about Film Festivals as Events

Kirsten Stevens 

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8. Writing about Experimental Cinema: Andy Warhol’s Empire (1964)

Glyn Davis 

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9. From Meaning to Effect: Writing about Archival Footage

Jaimie Baron 

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10. Making the Absent Present: Writing about Nonextant Media

Allyson Nadia Field 

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11. Expressing Race in Brazilian Telenovelas

Jasmine Mitchell 

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12. Writing about Music Video: Tracing the Ephemeral

Carol Vernallis 

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13. Writing Across Divides: Locating Power in K-pop Music Videos

S. Heijin Lee 

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14. Playing to Write: Analyzing Video Games

TreaAndrea M. Russworm and Jennifer Malkowski

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15. When It All Clicks: Writing about Participatory Media

Lauren S. Berliner 

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16. Feeling Out Social Media

Julie Wilson and Emily Chivers Yochim 

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17. "A Very Black Project": A Method for Digital Visual Culture

Lauren McLeod Cramer 

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18. Writing about Transnational Media: From Representation to Materiality

Fan Yang 

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19. Writing about Digital and Interactive Media

Dale Hudson and Patricia R. Zimmermann 

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20. (Un)Limited Mobilities

Rahul Mukherjee 

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21. Context is Key: How (and Why) You Should Write about Outdoor Advertising

Beth Corzo-Duchardt 

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METHODS AND LOCATIONS

22. How Sound Helps Tell a Story: Sound, Music, and Narrative in Vishal Bhardwaj’s Omkara

Nilanjana Bhattacharjya 

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23. Writing Outside the Text: A Cultural Approach to Exhibition and Moviegoing 

Jasmine Nadua Trice 

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24. Writing about Streaming Portals: The Drama of Distribution

Ramon Lobato 

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25. Analyzing and Writing about Credit Sequences

Monika Mehta 

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26. "We Are Not Thinking Frogs": The Archive, the Artifact, and the Task of the Film Historian

Katherine Groo 

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27. Show Me the Data!: Uncovering the Evidence in Screen Media Industry Research

Bronwyn Coate and Deb Verhoeven 

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28. Researching and Writing Across Media Industries

Derek Johnson 

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29. The Value of Surprise: Ethnography of Media Industries

Tejaswini Ganti 

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30. Listen Up!: Interviewing as Method

Alicia Kozma 

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31. The Need for Translation: Difference, Footnotes, Hyperlinks

Tijana Mamula 

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FORMS AND FORMATS

32. Words and More: Strategies for Writing about and with Media

Virginia Kuhn 

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33. Best Practices for Screen Media Podcasting 

Christine Becker and Kyle Wrather 

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34. Confessions of an Academic Blogger

Henry Jenkins 

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35. The Research and the Remix: Video Essays as Creative Criticism

Jeffrey Middents 

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36. Foregrounding the Invisible: Notes on the Video Essay Review

Chiara Grizzaffi 

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37. Review, Edit, Repeat: Writing and Editing Book Reviews

Alice Leppert 

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38. Extracurricular Scholarship: "Writing" My Audio Commentary of Losing Ground

Terri Francis 

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39. The Short, Sweet Art of Blurb Writing

Leah Shafer 

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40. Bridging the Gaps Between Scholarly Essays and Mass-Market Film Writing

Nick Davis

 

41. Writing Across the Page Without a Line

Holly Willis

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