The Artist is Absent: Davey Wreden and The Beginner's Guide

2016-07-26

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SEMIOTICS

A good place to start is Folding Ideas' (really old) video on signs and memes: https://youtu.be/rs0sybzUu24

Here's a whole site on it when you wanna go more in depth: http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/daniel/Documents/S4B/

DEATH OF THE AUTHOR

I'd say the best place to start would be the essay "Greatly Exaggerated" by David Foster Wallace, but it's, sadly, not online. It's in this book: https://www.amazon.com/Supposedly-Fun-Thing-Never-Again/dp/0316925284

Here's a rundown of the essay: http://machines.plannedobsolescence.net/dfwwiki/index.php?title=Greatly_Exaggerated

Here's Roland Barthes original essay that coined the phrase: http://www.tbook.constantvzw.org/wp-content/death_authorbarthes.pdf

And here's Michel Foucault's expansion of the theory: http://www.movementresearch.org/classesworkshops/melt/Foucault_WhatIsAnAuthor.pdf

ENUNCIATION THEORY

The best way to acquaint yourself with enunciation theory is to read through the glossary of Casetti's Inside the Gaze: https://www.amazon.com/Inside-Gaze-Fiction-Spectator-Translation/dp/0253334438

...but here's an article on it: https://francescocasetti.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/filmtheoryandenunciation.pdf

Laura Mandanas' take on TBG: http://www.autostraddle.com/the-beginners-guide-is-brilliant-horrifying-secretly-feminist-310119/

Liz Ryerson's take: http://ellaguro.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-beginners-guide-and-videogame.html

Robert Yang's take: http://www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2015/10/the-beginners-guide-by-davey-wreden-et.html