Saturday     14:30
The Chopin House
2024, 15 min., English

Director: Ian Garwood

Baby It’s You (Lucy Dacus Edit) adopts principles from the fanvid to analyse aspects of characterisation and narrative development in John Sayles’ 1983 teen romance Baby It’s You. It explores the utility of using imported pop songs in scholarly videographic criticism and also tests certain conventions of the fanvid, namely the focus on the visual source, rather than the music chosen to accompany it, and the tendency to erase the screen text’s original music soundtrack.

Ian Garwood is a Professor of Screen Studies at the University of Glasgow. He is on the editorial board of Movie and has published video essays and writing about audiovisual criticism in [In]Transition, NECSUS, and The Cine-Files. Indy Vinyl, his audiovisual and written research project on record playing in American Independent Cinema, won the 2021 Videographic Criticism award from the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies.