FILM CRITICISMPub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1353/crt.2022.a899719
Mark Alan Mattes
{"title":"Trees and Texts: Indigenous History, Material Media, and the Logan Elm","authors":"Mark Alan Mattes","doi":"10.1353/crt.2022.a899719","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/crt.2022.a899719","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Settler accounts of the Cayuga Native American Soyeghtowa (Logan), such as Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia, interpret his famous mourning speech, \"Logan's Lament,\" as the words of a melancholic, noble savage and vanishing Indian. This essay decolonizes settler accounts of Logan's words and deeds such as Jefferson's book by considering Indigenous relationships to a once-living memorial on Shawnee land in central Ohio, the Logan Elm, which nineteenth-century settlers apocryphally identified as the site of Logan's speech. Drawing on scholarly work on Indigenous writing and historical media by Native American and settler intellectuals, as well as local knowledge keepers, sections focus on Indigenous memories of Logan recorded in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century textual archives, early twentieth-century Native American orations, and twenty-first century interpretations of Logan by enrolled members of the Seneca Cayuga Nation. These interpretations, rooted in the sacred and political significance of trees in the Haudenosaunee treaty protocol, the founding of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, and the oral tradition of the Haudenosaunee Constitution, figure Logan's speech as an Indigenous history oriented toward Indigenous futures.","PeriodicalId":42834,"journal":{"name":"FILM CRITICISM","volume":"45 1","pages":"267 - 284"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73908513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FILM CRITICISMPub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1353/crt.2022.a899721
J. Erickson
{"title":"\"In the Cards\": The Material Textuality of Tarotological Reading","authors":"J. Erickson","doi":"10.1353/crt.2022.a899721","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/crt.2022.a899721","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines deep-seated relationships that inextricably bind the material makeup of divinatory card decks to their multifarious literacy functions. Unpacking the deceptive underlying complexities in these objects requires both an ontological analysis of their multicultural rootedness and a speculative exploration of their propensity for memetic adaptation. The concept of \"reading\" cards as textual objects has typically existed on the fringes of Western literacy paradigms. In reality, however, considering the rather commonplace use of pedagogical objects such as alphabet cards and flash cards, the practice of reading cards should be recognized for its considerable role in literacy instruction. In looking at visual elements and sources shared between playing cards and the tarot—specifically, those that combine to form their visual lexicon—this article provides a contemporary survey of how, through its derivatives, the materiality of tarotological print cultures create diverse acts of reading. Discussed are card symbolism, the alchemical amalgamation of visual allegory, allegorical textuality in esoterica, and the transchronological hybridity in these cards as a counternarrative to illusory models of ethnic purity in European material culture.","PeriodicalId":42834,"journal":{"name":"FILM CRITICISM","volume":"11 1","pages":"301 - 316"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89082601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FILM CRITICISMPub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1353/crt.2022.a899730
Joshua G. Ortiz Baco, B. Lee, J. Casey, S. H. Salter
{"title":"Toward An Experimental Bibliography of Hemispheric Reconstruction Newspapers","authors":"Joshua G. Ortiz Baco, B. Lee, J. Casey, S. H. Salter","doi":"10.1353/crt.2022.a899730","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/crt.2022.a899730","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Digital collections of newspapers have drawn broader attention to the fragmented and scattered print histories of minoritized communities. Attempts to survey these histories through bibliography, however, quickly meet with a fundamental problem: the practice of bibliographic description calls for creating a static record of social affiliations. Given the overwhelming scholarly consensus that categories such as race, ethnicity, and language are socially constructed, this article introduces an experimental bibliographic method for mapping the vast landscape of historical newspapers. This method extends the machine learning affordances of a recent project called Newspaper Navigator to enumerate the newspapers in Chronicling America according to the visual similarity of their layouts. After explaining this method, the authors delve into the unsettled formats of one unruly example, a Spanish-language newspaper in Los Angeles, California, called La Crónica (1872–92). La Crónica changed its formats many times over the years as part of the paper's ambitions for political influence or commercial appeal. Experimental mapping and closer analysis demonstrate that a more iterative bibliographic approach can help us better understand the serial craft of newspapers and, by extension, the force of print in forming communities.","PeriodicalId":42834,"journal":{"name":"FILM CRITICISM","volume":"19 1","pages":"453 - 470"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81895719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FILM CRITICISMPub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1353/crt.2022.a899734
Megan Peiser
{"title":"Citing Seeds, Citing People: Bibliography and Indigenous Memory, Relations, and Living Knowledge-Keepers","authors":"Megan Peiser","doi":"10.1353/crt.2022.a899734","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/crt.2022.a899734","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This piece explores Indigenous knowledge-keeping and -sharing of Turtle Island, the place currently called the United States, especially as it relates to ancestral knowledge, oral tradition, and the living place of our knowledge—the land, and the fields of bibliography and book history. More specifically this article focuses on the seed as a site of Indigenous knowledge and how structures of knowledge corralling (book, library, collection) and knowledge managers (reader, librarian, archivist, collector) do not equally or easily map onto Indigenous knowing. Book history and bibliography as of this moment have no way to consider in their field discourse the symbiotic and living familial relationship between knowledge, DNA, culture, environment, and tradition embodied in seeds, the gardens, and lands where they grow, and the human relatives who interact with those seeds in the continual living process of creating, planting, growing, sharing, eating, and living Indigenous knowledge—that is, Indigenous texts. This article exposes the ways that Indigenous peoples are living with knowledge traditions embodied in our more-than-human relatives. That knowledge exists because some being is continually living some part of it and communicating it with other beings. Central to many of these knowledge traditions are seeds.","PeriodicalId":42834,"journal":{"name":"FILM CRITICISM","volume":"16 1","pages":"521 - 531"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82359734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FILM CRITICISMPub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1353/crt.2022.a899725
G. Wilson
{"title":"Surface Reading Paper as Feminist Bibliography","authors":"G. Wilson","doi":"10.1353/crt.2022.a899725","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/crt.2022.a899725","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article models a mode of feminist bibliography by \"surface reading\" paper. Taking Ben Jonson's Sejanus His Fall (1605) as a case study, this article reads watermarks as reminders of paper's three-dimensional materiality, whose surfaces and depths model the more and less legible forms of labor which contribute to paper's making. Watermarks here become a creative and critical prompt to recover the interventions of John Spilman (the papermaker whose output was used for Sejanus), Spilman's workers, and especially his female ragpickers. This article fuses close reading of literary texts and archival sources with bibliography and theory to demonstrate fresh affordances of watermarks—both as they alter our reading of Sejanus and as they intervene more broadly in the affective and political models with which we read.","PeriodicalId":42834,"journal":{"name":"FILM CRITICISM","volume":"222 1","pages":"369 - 383"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75638953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FILM CRITICISMPub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1353/crt.2022.a899726
Amanda Stuckey
{"title":"Access in Book History Methodology and Pedagogy: Report from the \"Touch to See\" Workshop","authors":"Amanda Stuckey","doi":"10.1353/crt.2022.a899726","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/crt.2022.a899726","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article theorizes methodological transparency in intersections of book history and pedagogy. To illuminate the intersections of accessible pedagogy and liberation bibliography, I describe the process of planning and conducting an archive-based workshop submitted to the Bibliographical Society of America. The workshop focuses on one book object: an 1836 New Testament embossed in raised roman letters meant to be read by the fingers of low-vision and blind students. The workshop especially seeks to reach community and traditionally nonacademic spaces, both virtual and on-site. Workshop participants discuss and reflect on the relationships among education access, disability history, and the book as a material object. We emphasize the merging of method with material: in the same way that the embossed book attempted to make literacy accessible to blind and low-vision readers, this workshop must be accessible to a range of participants and tailored to the individual needs and preferences of those registered. Reflecting on the planning, conducting, and aftermath of this workshop, I suggest that the workshop potentially merges disability pedagogy and liberation bibliography: interdependence is not only acknowledged but also privileged; hierarchies are not only identified but also unpacked; and knowledge is made rather than received. I build this theorization from participant's contributions, feedback, and meta-reflections that assess the workshop on multiple levels, from access to content.","PeriodicalId":42834,"journal":{"name":"FILM CRITICISM","volume":"29 1","pages":"385 - 396"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81099490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FILM CRITICISMPub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1353/crt.2022.a899727
Julie R. Enszer
{"title":"Barbara Grier's Enumerative Bibliographies: Iterating Communal Lesbian Identities","authors":"Julie R. Enszer","doi":"10.1353/crt.2022.a899727","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/crt.2022.a899727","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Barbara Grier, best known for her publishing work with the Naiad Press, started her literary life in the pages of The Ladder, the magazine of the Daughters of Bilitis. Working initially under the tutelage of Jeanette Howard Foster, Grier cataloged and categorized work by and about lesbians during the repressive decades of the 1950s and 1960s. By tracing Grier's work in three major bibliographic projects, the Lesbiana column in The Ladder, the Lesbian in Literature (published in three separate editions), and Lesbiana (a book Grier published from her columns), Grier's bibliographic practices, enumerative and annotative, emerge as tools in the era before Judith Butler that distill lesbian identities and forge lesbian communities through iterative practices. An examination of Grier's bibliographic work between 1957 and 1981 reveals how it functions as a form of identity making and communal imagining, anticipating Butler's theories of bodies and beings in Gender Trouble (1990). Operating functionally as an outsider of multiple worlds, Grier's work is a monumental achievement, synthesizing a rich lesbian literary tradition from the work of predecessors. Grier's work also provided a vibrant foundation for future canon-making projects that define lesbian literature and assert lesbians as cultural citizens.","PeriodicalId":42834,"journal":{"name":"FILM CRITICISM","volume":"192 1","pages":"397 - 412"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77957234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FILM CRITICISMPub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1353/crt.2022.a899738
J. Sargan
{"title":"What Could a Trans Book History Look Like? Toward Trans Codicology","authors":"J. Sargan","doi":"10.1353/crt.2022.a899738","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/crt.2022.a899738","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article draws on critical trans studies and queer archival practice to propose a book historical mode that extends what we know about the premodern trans experience beyond the recovery of individual biographies. Instead of turning to textual sources for the identification of transness, the author looks to Susan Stryker's call for the \"recuperat[ion of] embodied knowing as a formally legitimated basis of knowledge production.\" Bibliography, he suggests, makes claims of objectivity that engender a particular reluctance to respond to such calls. But the lived reality of archival research is one of affective embodiment. Affect theory is an area that, as yet, has seen little methodological uptake in bibliographical research. This article lays the ground for a trans book history that takes affective embodied response seriously as a source of trans connection to and through the past.","PeriodicalId":42834,"journal":{"name":"FILM CRITICISM","volume":"5 1","pages":"571 - 586"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89970486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FILM CRITICISMPub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1353/crt.2022.a899731
Kirstyn J. Leuner, Catherine M. Koehler, Doran Larson
{"title":"Activist Bibliography as Abolitionist Pedagogy in the American Prison Writing Archive","authors":"Kirstyn J. Leuner, Catherine M. Koehler, Doran Larson","doi":"10.1353/crt.2022.a899731","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/crt.2022.a899731","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article describes how undergraduate coursework performs activist bibliography for the largest and first fully searchable digital archive of testimony writing by currently incarcerated people, the American Prison Writing Archive (APWA). The authors argue that when teachers invite students to participate as citizen archivists for the APWA as coursework, through contributing crowdsourced metadata such as transcription and subject tagging, the incarcerated writers whose manuscripts they edit become the epistemological center of the course. Through this pedagogy, APWA authors create and disseminate knowledge about the emotional and physical tolls of incarceration and the need for prison abolition. The article features two case studies in undergraduate teaching assignments: (a) students performing subject tagging of APWA testimony in a literature course, and (b) students transcribing APWA manuscripts in a literacy studies course. Both engage students in activist bibliographical work and digital humanities for a public audience that increases the functionality and content in the archive, defies carceral censorship, and demystifies broad public and political misinformation about prisons and imprisoned people. By detailing two possibilities for incorporating APWA editing into literature and literacy curricula, and its potential to ideologically transform student citizen archivists, the authors hope to attract more instructors to include this editorial work in their syllabi and extend our call for critical action within and beyond the archive.","PeriodicalId":42834,"journal":{"name":"FILM CRITICISM","volume":"53 1","pages":"471 - 486"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81024510","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FILM CRITICISMPub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1353/crt.2022.a899732
Danielle Spratt, Deena Al-halabieh, Stephen Martinez, Quill Sang, Joseph Sweetnam, S. Guerrero, R. King
{"title":"Acts of Disruption in the Eighteenth-Century Archives: Cooperative Critical Bibliography and the Ballitore Project","authors":"Danielle Spratt, Deena Al-halabieh, Stephen Martinez, Quill Sang, Joseph Sweetnam, S. Guerrero, R. King","doi":"10.1353/crt.2022.a899732","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/crt.2022.a899732","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay outlines a method of intersectional feminist book history that we call \"cooperative critical bibliography,\" a practice of engaging faculty and students at different ranks and at different institutions in the act of collaboratively transcribing and digitizing historical archives of understudied communities, often those that comprise the quotidian and domestic daily lives of everyday people. Cooperative critical bibliography's non-hierarchical method centers the shared expertise and scholarship of students as they participate in broadening the accessibility of historical knowledge and revising standards of the historical literary canon through transcription, digitization, and shared reflection. By creating a pedagogical space that resituates learning and institutional connections non-hierarchically and elevates the material needs and experiential expertise of students to a crucial research skill, this practice offers an inclusive model of student-centered training that makes humanities and archival work welcoming for students of color, first-generation, and early career scholars: all groups who have been marginalized in university settings and in the fields of archival studies and book history.","PeriodicalId":42834,"journal":{"name":"FILM CRITICISM","volume":"21 1","pages":"487 - 502"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88846941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}