A Supercut of Supercuts: Aesthetics, Histories, Databases. Issue 1 (7th June 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Tohline, Max
• Is Part Of: Open screens. Volume 4:Issue 1(2021)
• Publication Date: 2021-06-07
• Subjects: editing -- supercut -- compilation -- montage -- archive -- database; Motion pictures -- Periodicals; Television broadcasting -- Periodicals; Motion pictures -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; Television broadcasting -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; 791.43
• DOI: 10.16995/os.45
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2516-2888

Abstract

The genealogies of the supercut, which extend well past YouTube compilations, back to the 1920s and beyond, reveal it not as an aesthetic that trickled from avant-garde experimentation into mass entertainment, but rather the material expression of a newly-ascendant mode of knowledge and power: the database episteme.