Janna Houwen is an Assistant Professor at the department of Film and Literary studies, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

This excellent book brilliantly examines complex arguments about media and their impact. As we transit from conventional forms of expression to multi-modal media, Janna Houwen expertly studies the shift in our understanding of meaning and messages and their role in contemporary society.

• IntroductionPart 1: The Reality Effect1 Reality Effects: Literature, Film and Video2 Devices in Video3 Devices in Film4 Sliding Scales5 Mediumspecificity and the Reality Effect6 InteractionPart 2: (Dis)embodiment7 Dispositif: A New Layered Structure8 (Dis)Embodying Dispositifs9 Cinema's Disembodying Dispositif: An Effect of an Effect10 Other Views on Film Viewing11 Surfaces and Screens: Video's Embodying Dispositifs12 In Between: Three Intermedial InstallationsPart 3: Social Structures13 The Medium,The Media and The Social14 Video: Flow and Feedback15 Film: Private/Production16 Electronic Diaries, Cinematic StoriesPart 4: Violent Features17 Objective Representation18 The Production of Portable Objects 19 Freezing20 Touching21 Surveillance22 VoyeurismConclusionBibliographyList of Films and VideosIndex

Janna Houwen is an Assistant Professor at the department of Film and Literary studies, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

This excellent book brilliantly examines complex arguments about media and their impact. As we transit from conventional forms of expression to multi-modal media, Janna Houwen expertly studies the shift in our understanding of meaning and messages and their role in contemporary society.

• IntroductionPart 1: The Reality Effect1 Reality Effects: Literature, Film and Video2 Devices in Video3 Devices in Film4 Sliding Scales5 Mediumspecificity and the Reality Effect6 InteractionPart 2: (Dis)embodiment7 Dispositif: A New Layered Structure8 (Dis)Embodying Dispositifs9 Cinema's Disembodying Dispositif: An Effect of an Effect10 Other Views on Film Viewing11 Surfaces and Screens: Video's Embodying Dispositifs12 In Between: Three Intermedial InstallationsPart 3: Social Structures13 The Medium,The Media and The Social14 Video: Flow and Feedback15 Film: Private/Production16 Electronic Diaries, Cinematic StoriesPart 4: Violent Features17 Objective Representation18 The Production of Portable Objects 19 Freezing20 Touching21 Surveillance22 VoyeurismConclusionBibliographyList of Films and VideosIndex

Janna Houwen is an Assistant Professor at the department of Film and Literary studies, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

This excellent book brilliantly examines complex arguments about media and their impact. As we transit from conventional forms of expression to multi-modal media, Janna Houwen expertly studies the shift in our understanding of meaning and messages and their role in contemporary society.

• IntroductionPart 1: The Reality Effect1 Reality Effects: Literature, Film and Video2 Devices in Video3 Devices in Film4 Sliding Scales5 Mediumspecificity and the Reality Effect6 InteractionPart 2: (Dis)embodiment7 Dispositif: A New Layered Structure8 (Dis)Embodying Dispositifs9 Cinema's Disembodying Dispositif: An Effect of an Effect10 Other Views on Film Viewing11 Surfaces and Screens: Video's Embodying Dispositifs12 In Between: Three Intermedial InstallationsPart 3: Social Structures13 The Medium,The Media and The Social14 Video: Flow and Feedback15 Film: Private/Production16 Electronic Diaries, Cinematic StoriesPart 4: Violent Features17 Objective Representation18 The Production of Portable Objects 19 Freezing20 Touching21 Surveillance22 VoyeurismConclusionBibliographyList of Films and VideosIndex