It sounds like it was a truly excellent conference.
*sigh*
I still wish I'd been able to make this, not least because I think that the way people are relating to these televisual texts has much more in common with what I'm doing than standard lit crit interrogations of text, and I think a lot of it boils down to the fact that people are not afraid to express love and affection for their sources. So much better than the pseudo-distance and so-called objectivity that gets paraded around elsewhere, or getting bogged down in absurd and reductive discussions of quality of source material.
The music thing makes me twitch between my shoulder blades a bit, partly because it makes me think of how I get continual messages about how I don't do music properly, and it seems to me that using music to represent character in this way is part of the same discourse, where music you make for yourself is better and the music-maker is superior to those who don't, without consideration that don't is a result of can't for many people. I will treat anyone who insists that everyone can make music to a trio as sung by me, my father and my brother, and accompanied by me on finger cymbals and see if they still claim the inherent superiority of home-made music over pre-recorded music.
I do hope Peter Wright's keynote gets published. I remember finding The Changes absolutely terrifying, from the opening credits onwards.
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Date: 2011-07-26 02:02 pm (UTC)*sigh*
I still wish I'd been able to make this, not least because I think that the way people are relating to these televisual texts has much more in common with what I'm doing than standard lit crit interrogations of text, and I think a lot of it boils down to the fact that people are not afraid to express love and affection for their sources. So much better than the pseudo-distance and so-called objectivity that gets paraded around elsewhere, or getting bogged down in absurd and reductive discussions of quality of source material.
The music thing makes me twitch between my shoulder blades a bit, partly because it makes me think of how I get continual messages about how I don't do music properly, and it seems to me that using music to represent character in this way is part of the same discourse, where music you make for yourself is better and the music-maker is superior to those who don't, without consideration that don't is a result of can't for many people. I will treat anyone who insists that everyone can make music to a trio as sung by me, my father and my brother, and accompanied by me on finger cymbals and see if they still claim the inherent superiority of home-made music over pre-recorded music.
I do hope Peter Wright's keynote gets published. I remember finding The Changes absolutely terrifying, from the opening credits onwards.
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