One of the best things I learned in Literary Criticism is that everything is a text. Books, poetry, short stories, plays, psalms, inscriptions, articles, essays etc are texts, of course, but so are photographs, paintings, dances, films, songs, and even people. Everything can be analyzed as a text. Everything can be appreciated as a text.
In that sense, I’m going to share a couple of my favorite video texts.
Storm by Tim Minchin on YouTube
This is a beat poem. It has text but it is not JUST text. If it lacked the music and animation, the effect would be gone.
In a BAWWW thread, amidst Ugly the Cat and Forever Alone, I found a japanese video about a girl and her dog. I hurt and I sobbed and I HIT REPLAY.
