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Book SynopsisOne possible description of the contemporary medial landscape in Western culture is that it has gone ‘meta’ to an unprecedented extent, so that a remarkable ‘meta-culture’ has emerged. Indeed, ‘metareference’, i.e. self-reflexive comments on, or references to, various kinds of media-related aspects of a given medial artefact or performance, specific media and arts or the media in general is omnipresent and can, nowadays, be encountered in ‘high’ art and literature as frequently as in their popular counterparts, in the traditional media as well as in new media. From the Simpsons, pop music, children’s literature, computer games and pornography to the contemporary visual arts, feature film, postmodern fiction, drama and even architecture – everywhere one can find metareferential explorations, comments on or criticism of representation, medial conventions or modes of production and reception, and related issues. Within individual media and genres, notably in research on postmodernist metafiction, this outspoken tendency towards ‘metaization’ is known well enough, and various reasons have been given for it. Yet never has there been an attempt to account for what one may aptly term the current ‘metareferential turn’ on a larger, transmedial scale. This is what The Metareferential Turn in Contemporary Arts and Media: Forms, Functions, Attempts at Explanation undertakes to do as a sequel to its predecessor, the volume Metareference across Media (vol. 4 in the series ‘Studies in Intermediality’), which was dedicated to theoretical issues and transhistorical case studies. Coming from diverse disciplinary and methodological backgrounds, the contributors to the present volume propose explanations of impressive subtlety, breadth and depth for the current situation in addition to exploring individual forms and functions of metareference which may be linked with particular explanations. As expected, there is no monocausal reason to be found for the situation under scrutiny, yet the proposals made have in their compination a remarkable explanatory power which contributes to a better understanding of an important facet of current media production and reception. The essays assembled in the volume, which also contains an introduction with a detailed survey over the possibilities of accounting for the metareferential turn, will be relevant to students and scholars from a wide variety of fields: cultural history at large, intermediality and media studies as well as, more particularly, literary studies, music, film and art history.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Werner Wolf: Is There a Metareferential Turn, and If So, How Can It Be Explained? Literature and Other Media Andreas Mahler: Writing on the Writer’s Block: Metaization and/as Lack of Inspiration Sonja Klimek: Fantasy Fiction in Fantasy Fiction: Metareference in the Otherworld of the Faërie John Pier: Intermedial Metareference: Index and Icon in William Gass’s Willie Masters’ Lonesome Wife Wolfgang Funk: The Quest for Authenticity: Dave Eggers’s A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius between Fiction and Reality Christine Schwanecke: Metareference in Marianne Wiggins’s Literary Photo-Text The Shadow Catcher and Other Novels Referring to the Photographic Medium Grzegorz Maziarczyk: Print Strikes Back: Typographic Experimentation in Contemporary Fiction as a Contribution to the Metareferential Turn Alexander Starre: The Materiality of Books and TV: House of Leaves and The Sopranos in a World of Formless Content and Media Competition Doris Mader: ‘Come on, Tell the Story. Describe his State of Mind’: Metaization in Peter Nichols’s Dramatic and Theatrical Vivisection A Piece of My Mind Visual Arts and Related Media Pamela C. Scorzin: Metascenography: On the Metareferential Turn in Scenography Claus Clüver: On Modern Graffiti and Street Murals: Metareferential Aspects of Writings and Paintings on Walls Katharina Bantleon: From Readymade to ‘Meta²’: Metareference in Appropriation Art Film and Television Dagmar Brunow: Deconstructing Essentialism and Revising Historiography: The Function of Metareference in Black British Filmmaking Nicholas de Villiers: Metahorror: Sequels, ‘The Rules’, and the Metareferential Turn in Contemporary Horror Cinema Michael Fuchs: Starring Porn: Metareference in Straight Pornographic Feature Films Irina O. Rajewsky: ‘Metatelevision’: The Popularization of Metareferential Strategies in the Context of Italian Television Erwin Feyersinger: The (Meta-)Metareferential Turn in Animation Henry Keazor: “The Stuff You May Have Missed”: Art, Film and Metareference in The Simpsons Music Walter Bernhart: Metareference in Operatic Performance: The Case of Katharina Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Martin Butler: Making Sense of the Metareferential Momentum in Contemporary Popular Songs Tobias Janz: Goodbye 20th Century: Sonic Youth, John Cage’s ‘Number Pieces’ and the Long Farewell to the Avant-Garde Other Media Jeff Thoss: “This Strip Doesn’t Have a Fourth Wall”: Webcomics and the Metareferential Turn Roy Sommer: ‘Metadesign’: A ‘Mythological’ Approach to Self-Reference in Consumer Culture Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis third volume in the Media for All series offers a diverse selection of articles which bear testimony to the vigour and versatility of research and developments in audiovisual translation and media accessibility. The collection reflects the critical impact of new technologies on AVT, media accessibility and consumer behaviour and shows the significant increase in collaborative and interdisciplinary research targeting changing consumer perceptions as well as quality issues. Complementing newcomers such as crowdsourcing and potentially universal emoticons, classical themes of AVT studies such as linguistic analyses and corpus-based research are featured. Prevalent throughout the volume is the impact of technology on both methodologies and content. The book will be of interest to researchers from a wide range of disciplines as well as audiovisual translators, lecturers, trainers and students, producers and developers working in the field of language and media accessibility.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Aline Remael, Pilar Orero and Mary Carroll: Audiovisual Translation and Media Accessibility at the Crossroads Section 1 – Extending the Borders of AVT Minako O’Hagan: From Fan Translation to Crowdsourcing: Consequences of Web 2.0 User Empowerment in Audiovisual Translation Carmen Mangiron: Exploring New Paths towards Game Accessibility Junichi Azuma: Graphic Emoticons as a Future Universal Symbolic Language Lucile Desblache: Mapping Digital Publishing for All in Translation Section 2 – Interpreting Sight and Sound Pablo Romero-Fresco: Quality in Live Subtitling: The Reception of Respoken Subtitles in the UK Juan Martínez Pérez: Applying a Punctuation-based Segmentation to a New Add-on Display Mode of Respoken Subtitles Nazaret Fresno: Experimenting with Characters: An Empirical Approach to the Audio Description of Fictional Characters Iwona Mazur & Agnieszka Chmiel: Audio Description Made to Measure: Reflections on Interpretation in AD based on the Pear Tree Project Data Alex McDonald: The In-vision Sign Language Interpreter in British Television Drama Section 3 – The Discourses of Audiovisual Translation AVT Classics Revisited Monika Woźniak: Voice-over or Voice-in-between? Some Considerations about Voice-Over Translation of Feature Films on Polish Television Anika Vervecken: Surtitling for the Stage and Directors’ Attitudes: Room for Change Bilingualism, Multilingualism and Its Consequences Henrik Gottlieb: Old Films, New Subtitles, More Anglicisms? Dominique Bairstow & Jean-Marc Lavaur: Audiovisual Information Processing by Monolinguals and Bilinguals: Effects of Intralingual and Interlingual Subtitles Anna Vermeulen: Heterolingualism in Audiovisual Translation: De Zaak Alzheimer/La Memoria del Asesino Vincenza Minutella: ‘You Fancying Your Gora Coach Is Okay with Me’: Translating Multilingual Films for an Italian Audience AVT, Film Language and Corpora Maria Pavesi: The Enriching Functions of Address Shifts in Film Translation Veronica Bonsignori, Silvia Bruti & Silvia Masi: Exploring Greetings and Leave-takings in Original and Dubbed Language Maria Freddi: What AVT Can Make of Corpora: Some Findings from the Pavia Corpus of Film Dialogue Catalina Jiménez & Claudia Seibel: Multisemiotic and Multimodal Corpus Analysis in Audio Description: TRACCE Notes on contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis book argues that there are constitutive links between early twentieth-century German and French film theory and practice, on the one hand, and vitalist conceptions of life in biology and philosophy, on the other. By considering classical film-theoretical texts and their filmic objects in the light of vitalist ideas percolating in scientific and philosophical texts of the time, Cinematic Vitalism reveals the formation of a modernist, experimental and cinematic strand of vitalism in and around the movie theater. The book focuses on the key concepts including rhythm, environment, mood, and development to show how the cinematic vitalism articulated by film theorists and filmmakers maps out connections among human beings, milieus, and technologies that continue to structure our understanding of film.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: ‘The sanguine, pulsating, enterprising modern life’: Cinema and Vitalism 1. Taking Life for a Spin 2. Turn-of-the-century Vitalism and Philosophy of Life 3. Early Film Theory 4. Cinematic Vitalism Chapter 1: Vitalism and Abstraction: Rhythm and Non-Organic Life from Hans Richter to Sergei Eisenstein 27 1. The Reinvention of Cinema in Abstract Film 2. A Universal Language 3. Bergson, Intuition, and Art 4. Setting Form into Motion: Scroll Paintings and Empathy 5. Transition to Film 6. Back into Matter: from Abstraction to Montage Chapter 2: New Worlds: Uexküll’s Umwelt Theory at the Movies 1. Forays 2. A Meditation on Mediated Dogs 3. The Agony of the Starfish: Uexküll’s Chronophotography 4. Of Ticks and Humans 5. Against Anthropocentrism: Umwelt and Cinema 6. A Necessary Field of Action: Benjamin, Umwelt, and Play 7. Painlevé’s Cinema of Bewilderment Chapter 3: The Interweaving of World and Self: Transformations of Stimmung in Expressionist and Kammerspiel Film 100 1. The Mediation of a Dog’s World 2. A Brief Aesthetic History of Stimmung 3. Turn-of-the-Century Vitalist Stimmung and the Cinema: Georg Simmel and Hugo von Hofmannsthal 4. Balázs, Kammerspielfilm, and Expressionism 5. The Kammerspiel Film: Naturalist Plots and Progressive Aesthetics Chapter 4: Open Bodies, Open Stories: Evolution, Narration and Spectatorship in Postwar Film Theory 1. The Axolotl and the Cinema: Bazin, Bergson, and Evolution 2. Cinema’s Milieu 3. Life and the Temporalities of Film and Painting 4. Post-Apocalyptic Life: Kracauer’s Theory of Film 5. Conclusion: Vital Cinema Bibliography

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Book SynopsisSpaces of Communication offers a concise introduction to semiopragmatics and condenses the intellectual trajectory of one of the foundational figures of film studies into a relatively short and accessible volume. It testifies to the author’s deep and rich intellectual engagement with a vast array of objects ranging from the classics of the cinephile canon to television news programs, home movies and mobile phone films.Trade Review"It is hard to believe that it has taken almost forty years for Roger Odin’s semio-pragmatic approach to finally become accessible in a book for the English-speaking world. Long before the post-cinema debate, Roger Odin started to theorize the many facets of film beyond the theatrical motion picture. Immensely productive particularly with a view to the current transformations of film, Odin’s film theory continues to question and subvert established distinctions: between disciplines and theoretical schools, but also between legitimate and illegitimate objects." – Alexandra Schneider, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz "With scientific rigor and academic generosity, Roger Odin discloses the analytical machine that underpins his semio-pragmatic approach. Readers not only enjoy a wide breadth of examples, but also witness the trial-and-error approach that ensured the success of semio-pragmatics. At once a methodological synthesis and a balance of intellectual achievement, this book promotes an integral method for analyzing film as a communicative apparatus." – Francesco Casetti, Yale UniversityTable of ContentsA Democracy of Readings and Objects: Roger Odin’s Contribution to the Theory of Film (Vinzenz Hediger) What We Make of Images and Sounds: Semio-Pragmatics as Approach and Method Establishing a Discipline, Cultivating a Field: Roger Odin and Film Studies in France Moving Semiotics Forward: Semio-Pragmatics and Film Theory since the 1960s Beware of the Crypt: Semio-Pragmatics and the Question of Communication After the Elegy of Cinema: Semio-Pragmatics and the State of Film Studies Spaces of Communication: Elements of Semio-Pragmatics (Roger Odin) Foreword and Acknowledgements Introduction: The Semio-Pragmatic Model On the Difficulty of Getting Away from Immanence On the Difficulty of Staying Within Immanence Vacillation For an Articulation between the Two Paradigms: Semio-Pragmatics The Semio-Pragmatic Model 1. Context, Constraints and the Space of Communication Universally Shared Constraints Natural Constraints The Narrative Constraint The Case of Languages Language and Perception The Influence of a Language on How We Read Images “Non-Natural” Constraints and the Notion of the “Space of Communication” 2. The Discursive Space : Communicative Competence and Modes of Production of Meaning Fictionalizing Mode (First Approach) Spectacularizing and Energetic Modes Documentarizing Mode, Moralizing Mode Fictionalizing Mode (Second Approach); Fabulating Mode 3. Aesthetic Mode, Artistic Mode: Relationship between Modes and Spaces From the Aesthetic Mode to Aesthetic Spaces From the Artistic Mode (in Reduced Form) to Inscription in the Space of Art From the Artistic Mode (Full-Fledged Form) to the Spaces of Art Relationship among Modes and among Spaces 4. Contextual Analysis and the Space of Communication: The Space of Communication of Family Memory The Space of Communication for Memory in the “Traditional” Family The Constraints and the Construction of the Actants Which Mode(s) to Construct? Private Mode, Intimate Mode Communication Operators The Space of Communication for Memory in the New Family Structure “Freed-Up” Communication Testimony Mode: Another Mode of Production of Meaning Other Memory Operators 5. The Space of Communication and Migration: The Example of the Home Movie The Home Movie: From Archives to Loci of Memory The Home Movie on Television From Home Movie to Micro-Histories The Home Movie in the Space of Art The Home Movie in the Medical Context 6. Textual Analysis and Semio-Pragmatics A Stage of the Tour de France on Television Interpreting the Reproduction of a Painting Collective Academic Research The Space of Description and the Construction of the Object of Analysis From the Space of Textual Analysis to the Space of Interpretation The Space of Ideological Analysis The Space of Epistemological Reflection The Place of Cinema in the Academic Institutional Space Conclusion List of Tools The Different Stages of Construction of the Semio-Pragmatic Model Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisKapitel 1: Das Feld der Gesundheitskommunikation: Ein Überblick.- Kapitel 2: Ein Scheitern der Kommunikation.- Kapitel 3: Gewohnheitstiere Automatisches Gesundheitsverhalten.- Kapitel 4: Die Politik der Gesundheitsrede: Macht, Ethik und andere Dilemmata.- Kapitel 5: Eudaimonia Der schwierige Versuch, Belege für Wohlbefinden oder dessen Fehlen zu finden.- Kapitel 6: Die Folgen von Kultur Gesundheitskommunikation gerechter und inklusiver gestalten.- Kapitel 7: Eine gemeinsame Vision fördern: Selbstidentität, Beziehungsaufbau und menschenzentrierte Interventionen.- Kapitel 8: Hashtag Bleib Gesund Digitale Medien in der Gesundheitskommunikation.- Kapitel 9: Zurück zu den Wurzeln Gesundheitskommunikation als Verbindungsmittel.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1. Indroduction.- Chapter 2. Life Begins HERE: Theory and Methodology of Empowerment Through the Internet.- Chapter 3. Evolution from the Internet to Social Networks.- Chapter 4. Evolution of Internet Policies at the Macro Level.- Chapter 5. Assessment of Internet Use Opportunities for Different Socioeconomic Groups.- Chapter 6. Reconstructing Life Opportunities for the Elderly in Social Networks.- Chapter 7. Comparison of Life Opportunities and Perceived Wellbeing for the Elderly Under the Structure of the Internet.- Chapter 8. Empowering Middle-aged People Through Social Networks.- Chapter 9. Connection Between Middle-aged People and Their Elderly Parents.- Chapter 10. How the Internet and Social Networks Empower Young People.-  Chapter 11. The Connection Between Young and Old.- Bibliography.

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