Format:
1 Online-Ressource (415 pages)
ISBN:
9780520957695
Content:
Editors Marsha Kinder and Tara McPherson present an authoritative collection of essays on the continuing debates over medium specificity and the politics of the digital arts. Comparing the term ""transmedia"" with ""transnational,"" they show that the movement beyond specific media or nations does not invalidate those entities but makes us look more closely at the cultural specificity of each combination. In two parts, the book stages debates across essays, creating dialogues that give different narrative accounts of what is historically and ideologically at stake in medium specificity and dig
Note:
Cover; TRANSMEDIA FRICTIONS; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Preface: Origins, Agents, and Alternative Archaeologies; PART I. MEDIUM SPECIFICITY AND PRODUCTIVE PRECURSORS; Medium Specificity and Productive Precursors: An Introduction; Print Is Flat, Code Is Deep: The Importance of Media-Specific Analysis; Postmedia Aesthetics; If-Then-Else: Memory and the Path Not Taken; Cyberspace and Its Precursors: Lintsbach, Warburg, Eisenstein; Past Indiscretions: Digital Archives and Recombinant History; Films Beget Digital Media; Navigating the Ocean of Streams of Story
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Is This Not a Screen? Notes on the Mobile Phone and CinemaPART II. DIGITAL POSSIBILITIES AND THE REIMAGINING OF POLITICS, PLACE, AND THE SELF; Digital Possibilities and the Reimagining of Politics, Place, and the Self: An Introduction; Transnational/National Digital Imaginaries; Is (Cyber) Space the Place?; Linkages: Political Topography and Networked Topology; The Database City: The Digital Possessive and Hollywood Boulevard; Cuba, Cyberculture, and the Exile Discourse; Thinking Digitally/Acting Locally: Interactive Narrative, Neighborhood Soil, and La Cosecha Nuestra Community
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Video Installation Art as Uncanny Shock, or How Bruce Nauman's Corridors Expand Sensory LifeBraingirls and Fleshmonsters; Tech-illa Sunrise (.txt con Sangrita); Works Cited; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520281851
Additional Edition:
Print version Transmedia Frictions : The Digital, the Arts, and the Humanities
Language:
English
Keywords:
Computerkunst
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Digital Humanities
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Neue Medien
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Intermedialität
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Electronic books
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