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The Argument (with annotations)

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dc.contributor.advisorGreyson, John R.
dc.creatorCockburn, Daniel Ernest
dc.date.accessioned2017-07-27T13:40:14Z
dc.date.available2017-07-27T13:40:14Z
dc.date.copyright2017-02-27
dc.date.issued2017-07-27
dc.date.updated2017-07-27T13:40:14Z
dc.degree.disciplineFilm And Video
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMFA - Master of Fine Arts
dc.description.abstractThe Argument (with annotations) is an appropriated-footage essay about metaphor specifically, the seemingly commonplace human knack for constructing and understanding metaphors. Its unseen narrator's line of thought takes us on a jagged path past the works of T.S. Eliot, Groucho Marx, John Carpenter, and Terence Davies, plus some lackadaisical astronomy and a 1960s television series with a very distinctive font. There is also a riddle about mirrors that's either the best riddle about mirrors you've ever heard or the worst one. That's what the film is for a while, anyway. Then something else happens. The Argument is intended as a riff on the genres of the essay-film and the more recent video essay form, a riff whose narrators authority is called into question, and whose audience, thinking they are watching an appropriated-footage piece, has the rug pulled out from underneath them when they find that they are watching a fiction film.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/33545
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectLiterature
dc.subject.keywordsFilm
dc.subject.keywordsMetaphor
dc.subject.keywordsDaniel Cockburn
dc.subject.keywordsClare Coulter
dc.subject.keywordsLiterature
dc.subject.keywordsLanguage
dc.subject.keywordsNorthrop Frye
dc.subject.keywordsChristopher Bollas
dc.subject.keywordsLakoff and Johnson
dc.subject.keywordsR.D. Laing
dc.subject.keywordsPaul Schrader
dc.subject.keywordsZen
dc.subject.keywordsFiction
dc.subject.keywordsGeoff Dyer
dc.subject.keywordsHomer
dc.subject.keywordsIliad
dc.subject.keywordsJohn Carpenter
dc.subject.keywordsT.S. Eliot
dc.subject.keywordsPoetry
dc.subject.keywordsMirrors
dc.subject.keywordsThe Prisoner
dc.subject.keywordsPatrick McGoohan
dc.subject.keywordsThe Big Lebowksi
dc.subject.keywordsSchizophrenia
dc.titleThe Argument (with annotations)
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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