Moving Images Memes

Category: Publication

Memeing, i.e. extracting (moving) images or soundbites from their original source, altering and appropriating them to new contexts – social, political, commercial or otherwise – has become a common practice that is significant to digital film culture(s). Memes involve and configurate moving images in a wide variety of formats, platforms and discourses. Thus, the ‘memefication’ of filmic ingredients (e.g. scenes, motifs, characters, quotes, gestures and expressions) is an ongoing and ever evolving process of cultural reproduction and preservation. While moving images are both material for memefication and memes themselves, their multifaceted role in meme culture is rarely scientifically discussed beyond popular discourse such as in case of 2023’s ‘Barbenheimer.’ This collection looks at the intersections and interdependencies of film culture and meme culture, framing memes as moving images in a triple sense. 1. Memes of moving images 2. Memes as moving image formats 3. Memes as images on the move and images that move us. We welcome contributions that engage with one or more of these approaches.

Initiator(s):
Graduate Research Training Program “Configurations of Film”

Deadline: 25.02.2025
Publication-Type: Book

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Post created by: Lymor Wolf Goldstein