Review of «Critical remediation»

Berry, Patrick. «Critical remediation: Locating Eliza«. Kairos 11.3 (2008). < http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/11.3/binder.html?topoi/prior-et-al/about/abstract_berry.html> visited 3 January 2013.

This short text is part of a larger collection, a «web text» on «Remediating the canons» in Kairos 11.3.

Berry’s contribution uses an 800×600-pixel canvas, where a scroll of text fills the larger middle pane. To the left is an image and a table of contents, and at the bottom is a row of four images, some still and some moving.
The essay is found in the text scroll, divided into five parts, each on a separate page. The images around the edges are «remediations» of  George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion. Some are manipulated images of theatrical posters and film footage. Others contain sound clips related to the theme pygmalion theme. There are also two short video clips of other scholars discussing this overall theme of literacy as upward social movement.

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Berry uses imagery and sound as commentary and expansions to his central theme of the proilferation of the Pygmalion theme, and the many examples do enforce his message. The essay is linear, and there are no use of hyperlinks apart from the table of contents.

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