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Academic Publication by Dr. Gregory Brophy and Dr. Shawn Malley, in the Lever Press, called “Adaptive Forms: Videographic Criticism and Contemporary Science Fiction Film”

Adaptive Forms employs videographic essays to explore the themes, ideas, and visual language through which media culture constantly evolves and adapts. Focusing on contemporary science fiction film, this analysis considers affinities between the genre’s expansive concerns with technological and social adaption, and cinema’s own evolutionary responses to technological and aesthetic change

In dialogue with short critical essays, Adaptive Forms adopts a range of videographic styles—including documentary filmmaking, music videos, supercuts, and slash fanvids—to illuminate the formal techniques through which cinema engenders techno-cultural adaptation. This multimedia book entangles biological, semiotic, and cultural understandings of adaptation, gesturing to a post-human and post-cinematic future.

Originating in part from the authors’ own adaptation to the videographic mode of instruction and evaluation in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Adaptive Forms is relevant to media, film, and science fiction studies, adaptation scholars, science fiction fans, and creators of videographic essays.

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Joannie St-Germain B.Sc. ’16, M.Sc. (she/her/elle)
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