Interview: The Metamorphoses of Front as a Narrative Told through Social Media Interface: A Conversation with Donna Leishman

Donna Leishman; Roderick Coover; Sandy Baldwin

doi:10.5040/9781501347597.ch-011

Interview: The Metamorphoses of Front as a Narrative Told through Social Media Interface: A Conversation with Donna Leishman

Donna Leishman, Roderick Coover, Sandy Baldwin

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Front is an exciting departure for Donna Leishman. Best known for allegorical, often wordless, Flash-based narratives, in Front she tells a contemporary and text-based story. Front unfolds using a faux-Facebook page along with Twitter, SoundCloud, and other apps. Like many of her other works, Front continues a concern with female experience and agency as well as elements of fairy tale and myth but does so in a very different way. Through its pointed concern with our immersion and investment in social media, it speaks to the creation of virtual identities and personas as well as to concealed narratives of need, longing, or trauma. The work envisions narrative possibilities for these platforms.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Digital Imaginary
Subtitle of host publication	Literature and Cinema of the Database
Editors	Roderick Coover
Publisher	Bloomsbury
Chapter	10
Pages	117-130
Number of pages	14
Edition	1
ISBN (Electronic)	9781501347597 , 9781501347580
ISBN (Print)	9781501347566
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5040/9781501347597.ch-011
Publication status	Published - 28 Nov 2019

Keywords

Feminism
Digital Culture
Social Media
Selfie
Literature

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Leishman, D., Olsen, J. (Developer) & Gibson, S. (Designer), 31 Jul 2014
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