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Book SynopsisIn this feminist cultural study of reenactments, Katie King traces the development of a new kind of transmedia storytelling during the 1990s, as a response to the increasing difficulty of reaching large audiences at a time where entertainment media and knowledge production were both being restructured.
Trade Review“King... here offers a challenging, meandering take on feminist transdisciplinary posthumanities through the lens of networked reenactment--what one could think of as transmedia storytelling, experiments in communication, and/or epistemological melodramas.... Recommended.” - S.E. Vie,
CHOICE Magazine“Theoretically rigorous, these books are also highly pragmatic in recommending activism for social justice…. King bases her argument on factually dense case studies organized in loose chronological order… [T]he organization works well to support historical analysis of a specific period… it is rewarding because her analysis is so trenchant.” - Carol Colatrella,
Postmodern Culture“In this lively, thoughtful, and provocative book, Katie King traces the multiple layers and complex intertwined ‘communities of practice’ that assemble around such diverse discursive sites as television programs, academic classes and conferences, museum exhibitions, and other public spectacles.
Networked Reenactments leaves the reader with a heightened sense of the possibilities, as well as the limits and dangers, of contemporary knowledge production, of the ways that we collectively make meanings and understand the heritage of the past in the present.”—
Steven Shaviro, author of
Connected, or What It Means to Live in the Network Society“King... here offers a challenging, meandering take on feminist transdisciplinary posthumanities through the lens of networked reenactment--what one could think of as transmedia storytelling, experiments in communication, and/or epistemological melodramas.... Recommended.” -- S.E. Vie * Choice *
“It is often the case that I read a book that inspires me to rethink a particular phenomenon. However, it is rare that a book challenges me to think differently about what it means to think. Katie King's
Networked Reenactments accomplishes both things. It is, in significant ways, a very tough act to follow.” -- Joy V. Fuqua * Women's Studies Quarterly *
“Theoretically rigorous, these books are also highly pragmatic in recommending activism for social justice…. King bases her argument on factually dense case studies organized in loose chronological order… [T]he organization works well to support historical analysis of a specific period… it is rewarding because her analysis is so trenchant.” -- Carol Colatrella * Postmodern Culture *
“A well-researched and convincing series of arguments reminding us that our own esoteric expertise can connect us to many conversations that help us remain relevant in the creation and dissemination of knowledges.” -- Jeanne L. Gillespie * Journal of American Culture *
Table of ContentsForeword / Donna Haraway ix
Preface. What Are Reenactments in This Book? xv
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction. A Thick Description amid Authorships, Audiences, and Agencies in the Nineties 1
1. Nationalities, Sexualities, and Global TV:
Highlander,
Xena, and Meanings of European Union 21
2. Science in American Life: Among the Culture Warriors 59
3. TV and the Web Come Together 129
4. Scholars and Intellectual Entrepreneurs 203
Conclusion. Toward a Feminist Transdisciplinary Posthumanities 273
Notes 301
Bibliography 335
Index 351
