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Wri$ng Con$ngency: “Data-‐Acts” The Digital Scholarly Essay
Enac$ng the “Scandal” of Mabel Normand Vicki Callahan, [email protected]
BREAKING THE FRAME
hHp://scalar.usc.edu/nehvectors/vicki-‐callahan/index
Mabel Normand by C.D. Gibson
Fashion and Performance: From the Gibson Girl’s “Cool Detachment” to a “Performance of Infelici$es”
INTERLOCUTORS
Opening Frame Invites Dialogue
A (Quick) Taxonomy of Performance: Melodrama/Declara$ve Statements
Birth of a Na+on, 1915
Hamilton King, Adver$sement for Coca cola
The Gibson Girl Poses, Not Models: Mickey
A Fine Romance: The Infelicitous Marriage and Performance of Mabel Normand
PATHS OF FASHION: SOCIAL HISTORY> NEITHER VICTORIAN OR NEW WOMAN PERFORMANCE> NEITHER THEATRE OR CINEMA AESTHETICS> NEITHER REALIST OR FANTASY NARRATIVE> DISRUPTIVE CLASSICAL AND ROMANTIC LINES NARRATION/NARRATOR> IRONIC/DETACHED, UNDERMINES NARRATIVE SINGULARITY
Vertical Inter-disciplinarity: Not additive or parallel tracks (film + cultural history) but investigation layered through multiple elements: Text, Still, Moving Image, other Archives. Each element does not fill in or replace but informs and then moves into another plane of exploration.
ETHICS AND EPISTEMOLOGY IN POSSIBLE HISTORIES