Editing is anything: pratiche di video essays tra semiotica ed estetica

Nicola Dusi; Lucio Spaziante

doi:10.6092/issn.2280-9481/7935

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Nicola Dusi University of Modena and Reggio Emilia http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9547-0184

Nicola M. Dusi, PhD in Semiotics, is Senior Lecturer of Media Semiotics at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy), Department of Communication and Economics. He is the author of the books: Il cinema come traduzione (Turin: Utet, 2003); Dal cinema ai media digitali (Milan: Mimesis, 2014); Contromisure. Trasposizioni e intermedialità (Milan: Mimesis, 2015).
He edited many Media Studies books, such as: Remix-Remake. Pratiche di replicabilità (Rome: Meltemi, 2006); Matthew Barney. Polimorfismo, multimodalità, neobarocco (Milan: Silvana Editoriale, 2012); L’uomo che vende un occhio. Un soggetto per il film Il Boom di Vittorio De Sica (con L. Di Francesco, ETS, 2017); Bellissima tra scrittura e metacinema (con L. Di Francesco, Diabasis, 2017). He also edited some monographic issues of international journals: Versus (85-87, 2000) dedicated to “Intersemiotic Translation;” Iris (30, 2004) dedicated to “Film Adaptation: Methodological Questions, Aesthetic Questions;” Degrés (141, 2010) about “Dance Research and Transmedia Practices.”
Lucio Spaziante University of Bologna http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0068-1689

Lucio Spaziante (PhD in Semiotics) is Senior Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies of the University of Bologna, where he teaches Analysis of Visual Communication and Theories and Models of Semiotics. His research interests are focused on popular music, media, youth cultures, and the sound/image relationship in the audiovisual language. He is the author of Sociosemiotica del pop (2007), and of Icone pop. Identità e apparenze tra semiotica e musica (2016). He also edited Remix-Remake (with Nicola Dusi, 2006). Among his latest publications: “Textual Innovation of The Audiovisual Language in Fashion Film”, Comunicazioni Sociali, (2017), and he also co-edited with Costantino Maeder a special issue of Versus-VSon sensorial effectiveness (2017).

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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2280-9481/7935

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video essays, semiotics, intertextuality, remix, post-media aesthetics

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The article examines, through methodological references to semiotics and film studies, the textual mechanisms of video essay, placed in the perspective of an evolution of studies on remix and remake, as audio-visual practices of recombination.

The essay describes the analytical will aimed at deepening and explaining, through a collective practice of commentary, and a communicative pact with the users which, through mediation dynamics, tends to make clear, using exemplification and comparison, the implicit elements of the analysed work.

By placing the phenomenon in a broader selection and composition logic (Manovich), the video essay appears similar to a form of tutorial that, however, through a hybrid statute placed between educational and entertainment, calls into question the authority of the institutional figures linked to audio-visual knowledge.

Editing is anything: practices of video essay, between analysis and aesthetics

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