Department of English University at Buffalo

Juxtapositions Lecture Series and Center for Global Film and Media present:

4:00-5:30pm | Center for the Arts, Screening Room 112

• Lecture: “Videographic Criticism as Theory and Practice”
  Prof. Tracy Cox-Stanton, Savannah College of Art and Design

5:45-6:45pm (following Tracy Cox-Stanton’s lecture) | Center for the Arts, Screening Room 112

• Screening: Works of Videographic Criticism
  Curated by Prof. Tanya Shilina-Conte, English, UB

Professor Tracy Cox-Stanton (Savannah College of Art and Design) is a scholar
and practitioner of videographic criticism, a form of audiovisual writing that has grown
exponentially in the past several years and fostered a rich debate about the ways that this
iteration of critical studies furthers the growth of digital humanities. Her work focuses
on the ways that this new mode of audiovisual writing not only recontextualizes images and sounds to suggest critical commentary, but also provides a unique sensory and aesthetic experience of its own. Her articles and videos explore questions about cinema’s sensory, material foundation, even as they write with those materials, using images and sounds to create their own sensory experience. Tracy Cox-Stanton is the founder and editor of The Cine-Files, an online scholarly journal of cinema studies. She has published in Camera Obscura, Spectator, Visual Arts Research, Critical Essays on Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, The Cine-Files, FilmScalpel, and (in)Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies.

Videographic criticism is an emergent field of critical studies centered around the
notion of the digital scholar or critic. There have been several Society for Cinema and
Media Study panels and workshops devoted to the subject, ongoing National Endowment
for the Humanities summer workshops at Middlebury College, a number of books and ebooks (e.g., The Videographic Essay: Criticism in Sound and Image, Film Studies in Motion: From Audiovisual Essay to Academic Research Video), and the launch of the first openly peer-reviewed journal devoted to the format—[in]Transition: Journal of
Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies.