In addition to film and literature, this also takes importance in video games and fashion for me. I love video games that are unashamedly "gamey", in that they take the inherent choice and consequences of video games to tell their story. One big example of this is the game Papers, Please which places you in the perspective of an immigration officer to ask the morality of border control as you choose who does or doesn't get to enter a fictional Soviet country. Another use of form is the avant-garde fashion designer Rei Kawakubo, who uses the technique of "deconstruction" to question our ideas of gender by using the sartorial forms traditionally seen as exclusive to "male" or "female" identities.
Absolutely, so many great ways games can innovate and do this too. Papers, Please is a great example. And very interesting to hear about form in fashion! Not at all an area of familiarity for me, but I can definitely see why it can enamour someone the same way language enamours me :)
Man, your channel is a goldmine of conscientious content. I'm so happy I found it. Also, House of Leaves. That's a book that goes nuts with form. Dracula too, for that matter(just to provide both a classic and contemporary example).
Great post! The off-the-cuff semi-rant may be your form 😊. As for other examples, this isn't fantasy but Nabokov's Pale Fire always come to mind when talking about form. That was certainly one of the first novels that really cracked my skull open as an example of the unique ways literature can use form.
Thank you! Pale Fire is great example. It was hard choosing just a few examples for this video. I'm looking forward to dedicating videos to specific books in the future to deep-dive on all the ways they explore form.
