Cultural and Media Studies – serie
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13 produkter
Rewind, Play, Fast Forward
The Past, Present, and Future of the Music Video
Av Henry Keazor, Thorsten Wübbena
Häftad, 2010
694 kr
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Due to shifts in the contexts of the production and presentation of the music video, more and more people start to talk about a possible end of this genre. At the same time disciplines such as visual-, film- and media-studies, art- and music-history begin to realize that despite the fact that the …
Totalitarian Communication
Hierarchies, Codes and Messages
Häftad, 2010
525 kr
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Totalitarianism has been an object of extensive communicative research since its heyday: already in the late 1930s, such major cultural figures as George Orwell or Hannah Arendt were busy describing the visual and verbal languages of Stalinism and Nazism. After the war, many fashionable trends in …
Re-thinking Ressentiment
On the Limits of Criticism and the Limits of Its Critics
Av Jeanne Riou, Mary Gallagher
Häftad, 2016
476 kr
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The charge of »Ressentiment« can in today's world – less from traditionally conservative quarters than from the neo-positivist discourses of particular forms of liberalism – be used to undermine the argumentative credibility of political opponents, dissidents and those who call for greater …
Precarious Alliances
Cultures of Participation in Print and Other Media
Av Martin Butler, Albrecht Hausmann m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
523 kr
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Starting from an analysis of practices of participation in contemporary print and other media, the volume opens up a historical perspective, probing the potential of the concept of participatory cultures for the exploration of past forms of collaboration between individual and collective actors …
Fashion Myths
A Cultural Critique
Häftad, 2013
540 kr
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Besides products and services multinational corporations also sell myths, values and immaterial goods. Such »meta-goods« (e.g. prestige, beauty, strength) are major selling points in the context of successful marketing and advertising. Fashion adverts draw on deeply rooted human values, ideals and …
Sound Worlds of Japanese Gardens
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Spatial Thinking
Häftad, 2014
714 kr
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Michael D. Fowler presents an interdisciplinary approach to investigating the sound world of traditional Japanese gardens by drawing from the diverse fields of semiotics, acoustic ecology, philosophy, mathematical modelling, architecture, music, landscape theory and acoustic analysis. Using …
Fractal Narrative
About the Relationship Between Geometries and Technology and Its Impact on Narrative Spaces
Häftad, 2014
669 kr
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Fractals suggest recursivity, infinity and the repetition of a principle of order. They are digital pictures of the universe's continuous movement ignored by mankind during millennia.This book investigates the relationship existing between geometries and technology, and how it guided cognitive …
ReClaiming Participation
Technology - Mediation - Collectivity
Av Anne Ganzert, Isabell Otto m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
523 kr
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This volume unravels the debates on the »Participation Age«: Instead of perpetuating visions of social »all-inclusion« or the »digital divide«, the collection reclaims collectivity as an effect of technological and historical conditions.Thinking of participation both as promise and duty, the …
Games | Game Design | Game Studies
An Introduction
Häftad, 2015
312 kr
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How did games rise to become the central audiovisual form of expression and storytelling in digital culture? How did the practices of their artistic production come into being? How did the academic analysis of the new medium's social effects and cultural meaning develop?Addressing these fundamental …
Pursuit of Meaning – Advances in Cultural and Cross–Cultural Psychology
Av Jürgen Straub, Carlos Kölbl m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
485 kr
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The fields of cross-cultural and cultural psychology both acknowledge the role of `culture' for the constitution of a meaningful practice. There are notable differences as well as remarkable commonalities between nomologically oriented cross-cultural psychology on the one hand and interpretive …
Machines as Agency – Artistic Perspectives
Av Christoph Lischka, Andrea Sick
Häftad, 2021
385 kr
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This book supports and deepens the existing interfaces between art, science, and technology – transgressing traditional principles and styles of research, and selectively overcoming the side-by-side coexistence in favour of an integrated »laboratory of the future«. Instead of relying on traditional …
Politics of Imagination – Benjamin, Kracauer, Kluge
Av Tara Forrest
Häftad, 2021
383 kr
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This book explores Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer and Alexander Kluge's analyses of the role that a rejuvenation in the capacity for imagination can play in encouraging us to reconceive the possibilities of the past, the present, and the future outside of the parameters of the status quo. The …
Interface Cultures – Artistic Aspects of Interaction
Av Christa Sommerer, Laurent Mignonneau m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
523 kr
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From media art archeology to contemporary interaction design – the term interface culture is based on a vivid and ongoing discourse in the fields of interactive art, interaction design, game design, tangible interfaces, auditory interfaces, fashionable technologies, wearable devices, intelligent …
