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Book SynopsisCurrent culturally oriented media studies have significantly advanced central concepts such like "mediality", "media culture", "media discourse" and "procedures of media". Focused on this newly defined terminological field, this volume presents landmark contributions for media studies providing new insights into the current state of research on media theory and media culture, simultaneously developing an agenda for future research.
Table of ContentsPreface; The Medium as Form; Transcriptivity Matters: On the Logic of Intra- & Intermedial References in Aesthetic Discourse; Rumor -- More or Less at Home: On Theories of News Value in the 20th Century; Get the Message Through. From the Channel of Communication to the Message of the Medium (1945-1960); Picture Events: Abu Ghraib; Voice Politics: Establishing the Loud/Speaker in the Political Communication of National Socialism; Electricity, Spirit Mediums, & the Media of Spirits; Normativity & Normality; Mass Media Are Effective: On an Aporetic Cunning of Evidence; Extraordinary Stories of the Ordinary Use of Media; The Governmentality of Media: Television as Problem & Instrument; In Between Languages -- In Between Cultures: Walter Benjamins Interlinear Version of Translation as Inframediality; Finding Openings with Opening Credits; The Reflexivity of Voice; A Handout on the Subject of Talking Hands; What Hands Can Tell Us: From the Speaking to the Expressive Hand; Semiotics of the Human: Physiognomy of Images & Literary Transcription in Johann Caspar Lavater & Georg Christoph Lichtenberg; Ultraparadoxical: On the Gravity of the Human Experiment in Pavlov & Pynchon; Bastards: Text/Image Hybrids in Pop Writing.
