{"product_id":"transmedia-frictions-9780520383029","title":"Transmedia Frictions","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEditors Marsha Kinder and Tara McPherson present an authoritative collection of essays on the continuing debates over medium specificity and the politics of the digital arts. Comparing the term transmedia with transnational, they show that the movement beyond specific media or nations does not invalidate those entities but makes us look more closely at the cultural specificity of each combination. In two parts, the book stages debates across essays, creating dialogues that give different narrative accounts of what is historically and ideologically at stake in medium specificity and digital politics. Each part includes a substantive introduction by one of the editors.    Part 1 examines precursors, contemporary theorists, and artists who are protagonists in this discursive drama, focusing on how the transmedia frictions and continuities between old and new forms can be read most productively: N. Katherine Hayles and Lev Manovich redefine medium specificity, Edward Branigan and Yuri Tsiv\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003ePreface: Origins, Agents, and Alternative Archaeologies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART I. MEDIUM SPECIFICITY AND PRODUCTIVE PRECURSORS\u003cbr\u003eMedium Specificity and Productive Precursors: An Introduction\u003cbr\u003eMarsha Kinder\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrint Is Flat, Code Is Deep: The Importance of Media-Specific Analysis\u003cbr\u003eN. Katherine Hayles\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePostmedia Aesthetics\u003cbr\u003eLev Manovich\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf–Then–Else: Memory and the Path Not Taken\u003cbr\u003eEdward Branigan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCyberspace and Its Precursors: Lintsbach, Warburg, Eisenstein\u003cbr\u003eYuri Tsivian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePast Indiscretions: Digital Archives and Recombinant History\u003cbr\u003eSteve Anderson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFilms Beget Digital Media\u003cbr\u003eStephen Mamber\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNavigating the Ocean of Streams of Story\u003cbr\u003eGrahame Weinbren\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIs This Not a Screen? Notes on the Mobile Phone and Cinema\u003cbr\u003eCaroline Bassett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART II. DIGITAL POSSIBILITIES AND THE REIMAGINING OF POLITICS, PLACE, AND THE SELF\u003cbr\u003eDigital Possibilities and the Reimagining of Politics, Place, and the Self: An Introduction\u003cbr\u003eTara McPherson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTransnational\/National Digital Imaginaries\u003cbr\u003eJohn Hess and Patricia R. Zimmermann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIs (Cyber) Space the Place?\u003cbr\u003eHerman Gray\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLinkages: Political Topography and Networked Topology\u003cbr\u003eDavid Wade Crane\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Database City: The Digital Possessive and Hollywood Boulevard\u003cbr\u003eEric Gordon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCuba, Cyberculture, and the Exile Discourse\u003cbr\u003eCristina Venegas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThinking Digitally\/Acting Locally: Interactive Narrative, Neighborhood Soil, and La Cosecha Nuestra Community\u003cbr\u003eJohn T. Caldwell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVideo Installation Art as Uncanny Shock, or How Bruce Nauman’s Corridors Expand Sensory Life\u003cbr\u003eMark B. N. Hansen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBraingirls and Fleshmonsters\u003cbr\u003eHolly Willis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTech-illa Sunrise (.txt con Sangrita)\u003cbr\u003eRafael Lozano-Hemmer and Guillermo Gómez-Peña\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWorks Cited\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49371724546391,"sku":"9780520383029","price":35.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520383029.jpg?v=1730154310","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/transmedia-frictions-9780520383029","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}