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The Switch Image
Television is the most powerful system of images in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Nonetheless, TV has attained only little philosophical attention so far, especially compared to other (visual) media such as film. This book looks at TV as what happens on the screen and beyond it; which is mainly the operation of switching images. It therefore proposes a new definition of TV as the first picture that can be switched on, off, and over, which stresses that TV is more tactile than visual. Through the operation of switching, TV figures the world from within and as the course of its figuration. This is grasped here by the term of “ontography”. Through the ongoing interlacing and bridg...
Slapstick: An Interdisciplinary Companion
Despite its unabated popularity with audiences, slapstick has received rather little scholarly attention, mostly by scholars concentrating on the US theater and cinema traditions. Nonetheless, as a form of physical humor slapstick has a long history across various areas of cultural production. This volume approaches slapstick both as a genre of situational physical comedy and as a mode of communicating an affective situation captured in various cultural products. Contributors to the volume examine cinematic, literary, dramatic, musical, and photographic texts and performances. From medieval chivalric romance and nineteenth-century theater to contemporary photography, the contributors study treatments of slapstick across media, periods and geographic locations. The aim of a study of such wide scope is to demonstrate how slapstick emerged from a variety of complex interactions among different traditions and by extension, to illustrate that slapstick can be highly productive for interdisciplinary research.
Television Studies and Research on Series
Television series enjoy an unbroken - popular as well as scholarly - attention. It is surprising, however, that in works on seriality in media and cultural studies, approaches to television studies and television history still play a rather minor role. Yet seriality should always be thought of in terms of television, since the two have always been inextricably interwoven - economically, technically and aesthetically. But what else constitutes the serial in television and how does it change its face in times of digitalization, streaming and interactivity? Is it possible to think of a genuine serial theory of the televisual - and what, in turn, can be learned from this for seriality beyond television? The essays in this volume contribute to shedding new light on the serial as a core principle of television and to providing new impulses for a television theory of the serial on the basis of diverse examples from the current range of television series.
Nostalgic Generations and Media
Nostalgic Generations and Media: Perception of Time and Available Meaning argues that the cultural rise in nostalgic media has the multi-generational impact of making the subjective experience of time speed up for those who are nostalgic, as well as create a surrogate nostalgic identity for younger generations by continually feeding them the content of their elders. This book is recommended for scholars interested in communication, media studies, and memory/nostalgia studies.
Star Wars after Lucas
Politics, craft, and cultural nostalgia in the remaking of Star Wars for a new age A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away—way back in the twenty-first century’s first decade—Star Wars seemed finished. Then in 2012 George Lucas shocked the entertainment world by selling the franchise, along with Lucasfilm, to Disney. This is the story of how, over the next five years, Star Wars went from near-certain extinction to what Wired magazine would call “the forever franchise,” with more films in the works than its first four decades had produced. Focusing on The Force Awakens (2015), Rogue One (2016), The Last Jedi (2017), and the television series Rebels (2014–18), Dan Golding explor...
Die mediale Vermarktung von Vladimir Putin. Imagebildung und Strategien der Inszenierung
Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Politik - Region: Russland, Note: 1,0, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Seminar für Slavistik/Lotman-Institut), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dieser Bachelorarbeit wird die mediale Vermarktung des russischen Präsidenten untersucht. Es soll festgestellt werden, welche Faktoren bei der Bildung des Putin Images eine Rolle spielen. Dabei soll berücksichtigt werden, dass das Image des russischen Präsidenten den kulturellen Einflüssen des Landes unterliegt und sowohl von den Traditionen der vorrevolutionären Zeit wie auch von den sowjetischen Traditionen beeinflusst wird. Ein weiteres Forschungsziel sind die Strategien der Inszenierung Vladimir Putin...
Das Unbewusste
Die Wissenschaft hat eine heilige Scheu vor dem Unbewussten. Für die wissenschaftliche Rationalität stellt es Bedrohung und Faszination zugleich dar - und aus dieser Ambivalenz speist sich auch die geschlechtliche Codierung des Unbewussten durch die Wissenschaften. Doch so sehr sich die wissenschaftliche Logik durch dieses »Andere« gefährdet sieht - sie ist auf diese Störungen angewiesen. Ähnlich wie das Weibliche als Katalysator für die künstlerische Einbildungskraft fungiert, wirkt das Unbewusste als Motor wissenschaftlicher Wissensproduktion.Den vielfältigen Dynamiken des Unbewussten in der Wissens- und Geschlechterordnung will der Band auf die Spur kommen. Die Beiträge befassen sich sowohl mit der Wissensgeschichte des Unbewussten, den unbewussten Gendercodes der Wissensordnung als auch mit dem visuellen und politischen Unbewussten.
LOST in Media
The television series LOST initiated a wide-ranging academic debate which centered on its narrative and temporal complexity, while also addressing the massive expansion into other media and consequently crossing established genre categories. This expansion poses the essential question about the status of the original medium (television) within recent multiple media configurations. Can LOST be regarded as a symptom of television in the process of media change? What is the relation between LOST's temporality and that of television in general? And how can LOST be understood as a phenomenon of mediatized worlds? The contributions in this book examine these questions. The book's editors are members of the project "TV Series as Reflection and Projection of Change," which is part of the DFG Priority Program 1505: "Mediatized Worlds". (Series: Medien'welten. Braunschweiger Schriften zur Medienkultur - Vol. 19)
Um/Ordnungen
Fotografie wurde seit ihrem Aufkommen für äußerst vielfältige Darstellungszwecke eingesetzt, auch wenn es um das Ablichten von Menschen ging. Besondere Bedeutung kam hierbei den fotografischen Bildgebungsverfahren zu, weil man ihnen die unverfälschte Wiedergabe außerbildlicher Realität unterstellte. Dies galt für Porträts genauso wie für wissenschaftliche Menschenbilder, mit deren Hilfe man visuelle Ordnungssysteme zu errichten versuchte. Prekäre Zuspitzungen erfuhren solche Systeme in ideologisch motivierten Vorhaben wie koloniale Bildproduktion oder nationalsozialistische Propaganda. Gerade an diesen Projekten lässt sich verdeutlichen, dass die fotografische Konstruktion von Identität immer auch mit der Destruktion dessen einhergeht, was von der visuell gesetzten Norm abweicht. Dieser Zusammenhang spiegelt sich nicht zuletzt in mannigfaltigen Versuchen künstlerischer Subversion, welche die genannten historischen Bildpraxen in all ihrer Vielschichtigkeit fokussieren.
