Writing ImagesMain MenuBook SplashWelcomeCinematic HumanitiesFour Modes of Critical Visual AnalysisVisual Remix and the Audio CommentaryGraphic WritingThe Hand-MadeMateriality and the Reflective ViewerHolly Willisec84a525fa149f684b0800e777adb0de503d2ae9
Thom Andersen's Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003)
12015-11-15T01:46:04-08:00Holly Willisec84a525fa149f684b0800e777adb0de503d2ae970961Voice over narration re-writes the meaning of film images, just as cinema revises the meaning of performed spacesplain2015-11-15T01:46:04-08:00Critical Commons2003VideoLos Angeles Plays ItselfThom Andersen2015-11-15T01:45:09ZHolly Willisec84a525fa149f684b0800e777adb0de503d2ae9
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12015-11-14T23:22:25-08:00Visual Remix and the Audio Commentary4plain2015-11-15T01:46:39-08:00In the first form, artists integrate images and voice-over commentary to create multimedia experiences that destabilize the power of the visual, helping call attention to the ways in which they are always part of a larger representational context. The example I analyze in the essay is Thom Andersen’s 2003 film Los Angeles Plays Itself.