La autorreferencialidad en Orson Welles' Sketch Book (1955): Concomitancias y paralelismos con la narrativa youtuber
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2024
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Giménez Sarmiento, Álvaro. (2024). Self-referentiality in Orson Welles’ Sketch Book (1955): Similarities and Parallels with YouTuber Narrative. VISUAL REVIEW. International Visual Culture Review / Revista Internacional De Cultura Visual, 16(7), 47–62. https://doi.org/10.62161/revvisual.v16.5364
Abstract
Orson Welles realizó en marzo de 1955 Orson Welles´ Sketch Book, una serie documental para la BBC donde comentaba una serie de anécdotas ilustradas con bocetos que él mismo dibujaba. Casi setenta años después, podemos comprobar que este planteamiento es muy similar al llevado a cabo por la mayoría de los denominados youtubers, creadores de contenido que emplean las redes sociales para difundir sus mensajes. Mediante un análisis del contenido de estos programas, extraeremos las autorreferencias que realiza Orson Welles y las pondremos en comparación con algunos de los estudios realizados sobre este tipo de narrativa.
Orson Welles created "Orson Welles' Sketch Book" in March 1955, a documentary series for the British BBC. It consisted of six episodes, each lasting fifteen minutes, where Welles shared a series of personal anecdotes accompanied by sketches he drew himself. Despite the apparent simplicity of the concept, Welles implemented a set of strategies where self-reference stood as a fundamental driving force of the narrative. Nearly seventy years later, we can observe that this approach is remarkably similar to that adopted by the majority of so-called YouTubers, content creators who utilize social media to disseminate their messages. Through an analysis of the content of these programs, we will extract the self-references made by Orson Welles and compare them with some of the studies conducted on this type of storytelling.
Orson Welles created "Orson Welles' Sketch Book" in March 1955, a documentary series for the British BBC. It consisted of six episodes, each lasting fifteen minutes, where Welles shared a series of personal anecdotes accompanied by sketches he drew himself. Despite the apparent simplicity of the concept, Welles implemented a set of strategies where self-reference stood as a fundamental driving force of the narrative. Nearly seventy years later, we can observe that this approach is remarkably similar to that adopted by the majority of so-called YouTubers, content creators who utilize social media to disseminate their messages. Through an analysis of the content of these programs, we will extract the self-references made by Orson Welles and compare them with some of the studies conducted on this type of storytelling.