How Brian David Gilbert's Audience Changes the Definition of Cinema
Channel: What'sBehindTheSky
Date: 2021-09-02

In which a nerdy humanities grad student connects "Have You Seen My Laptop" by Brian David Gilbert to an emerging field of cinema studies.

Have You Seen My Laptop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV__C64Ni50
Hurdy-gurdy reaction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqvAaKp9a0g

Théo: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheLetterFifteen
Mark: https://www.youtube.com/user/orasion64

0:00 Intro
1:15 What is Cinema?
5:38 Have You Seen My Laptop?
6:38 Small Brain Thesis: No Critical Thinking Allowed!
7:45 Normal Brain Thesis: Fan Responses
12:45 Exploding & Galaxy Brains: Comments are Art!
16:03 Conclusion

Works Cited: 
André Bazin, "Ontology of the Photographic Image"
Lev Manovich, "What is Cinema?"
Tom Gunning, "Animating the Instant"
Jacqueline Stewart, "Negroes Laughing at Themselves"
Dudley Andrew, "A Film Aesthetic to Discover"
Jinying Li, “The platformization of Chinese cinema: The rise of IP films in the age of 
Internet+”

Music:
Bach Partita no. 3 - performed by Karen Gomyo

Pomp and Circumstance - performed by the Eastern Wind Symphony

Thinking Music by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4522-thinking-music
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Villainous Treachery - Distressed by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4587-villainous-treachery---distressed
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Waltz of Treachery by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4606-waltz-of-treachery
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Hi! I'm Char. I make video essays about media criticism, literature, and queerness. Let's take some crazy cultural objects and figure out what they mean.