[CORPUS LOQUENDI:] POP-POP-VIDEO: GERNERAL HOSPITAL/OLYMPIC WOMEN SPEEDSKATING
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Title
[CORPUS LOQUENDI:] POP-POP-VIDEO: GERNERAL HOSPITAL/OLYMPIC WOMEN SPEEDSKATING
Subject
Television
Sports
Women
Description
In the dynamic Pop-Pop Video tapes, Birnbaum appropriates standard television genres — the soap opera, sports event, action drama — to deconstruct the idiomatic meaning of TV's structural codes and conventions, such as the intercut and reverse shot.
General Hospital/Olympic Women Speed Skating is a fragmented collage that cuts between two sources of off-air television imagery — the TV sports event and the soap opera — to analyze the syntax and gestures of what Birnbaum terms "TV treatment" — in this case, the cross-cut and the reverse shot. The "cross-over" in an Olympic women's speed skating race is juxtaposed with daytime drama General Hospital's "whites" in reverse angle shots. A couple tries to reach an understanding. Skaters continuously return to the starting line. Frustration and exertion combine with originally scored soundtracks of disco, rock and jazz. The female soap opera character's emotional stress, her gestures and rhetoric of paranoia and self-doubt are countered with the pure physical performance of the female sports figures.
General Hospital/Olympic Women Speed Skating is a fragmented collage that cuts between two sources of off-air television imagery — the TV sports event and the soap opera — to analyze the syntax and gestures of what Birnbaum terms "TV treatment" — in this case, the cross-cut and the reverse shot. The "cross-over" in an Olympic women's speed skating race is juxtaposed with daytime drama General Hospital's "whites" in reverse angle shots. A couple tries to reach an understanding. Skaters continuously return to the starting line. Frustration and exertion combine with originally scored soundtracks of disco, rock and jazz. The female soap opera character's emotional stress, her gestures and rhetoric of paranoia and self-doubt are countered with the pure physical performance of the female sports figures.
Creator
BIRNBAUM, Dara
Source
Jan Peacock
Publisher
s.n.
Date
1980
Contributor
Creator: Dara Birnbaum
Format
VHS
Language
English
Type
Artist Video (V)
Identifier
B57 980a c.1
Moving Image Item Type Metadata
Duration
5:30 min.
Citation
BIRNBAUM, Dara, “[CORPUS LOQUENDI:] POP-POP-VIDEO: GERNERAL HOSPITAL/OLYMPIC WOMEN SPEEDSKATING,” NSCAD Visual Resources Collection, accessed April 26, 2024, https://nscadvrc.omeka.net/items/show/5534.
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