Articles with tag: visual studies

Issue 18
analog film
digital cinema
HBO
KODAK
visual studies
Winning Time

Winning Time and Losing Frames

Clashing Formats in the Post-Archive

Flitting through strips of analog film, camera burns, and out-of-sync audio, HBO’s foray into NBA basketball is a nostalgic love letter to the 1980s from the digital age. Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty (2022–23) both chronicles the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team in the ‘Showtime’ era, from 1979 to 1991, and grapples with the multitrack possibilities in film production today. With players and coaches addressing the camera as frequently as one another, the series refuses to commit to any particular film stock or camera technology…

12/20/2019 _Perspective
architecture
digital heritage
social media
visual studies

Modernist Architecture and Visual Culture

Online Forms of Distribution

Twenty years ago, architecture that played a role in people’s everyday lives, such as this panel housing building from Dushanbe, Tajikistan (Fig. 1) would have been known only by the locals and maybe by some professionals interested in the history of architecture in the Soviet Union. Nowadays, photographic representations emphasizing the structure and design of the building are available on social media for a wide range of audiences. […]