Media, Culture, and Mediality : : New Insights into the Current State of Research / / ed. by Irmela Schneider, Erika Linz, Ludwig Jäger.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter transcript Backlist eBook Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: BALKE, FRIEDRICH,; BARTZ, CHRISTINA,; BEHREND, HEIKE,; BEILENHOFF, WOLFGANG,; ELLRICH, LUTZ,; EPPING-JÄGER, CORNELIA,; FEHRMANN, GISELA,; FOHRMANN, JÜRGEN,; HÜSER, REMBERT,; JÄGER, LUDWIG,; KRAUSE, MARCUS,; LINZ, ERIKA,; LÖFFLER, PETRA,; OTTO, ISABELL,; POMPE, HEDWIG,; SCHNEIDER, IRMELA,; SCHOLZ, LEANDER,; SCHUMACHER, ECKHARD,; SCHÜTTPELZ, ERHARD,; STAUFF, MARKUS,; VOSSKAMP, WILHELM,; WEINGART, BRIGITTE,; WETZEL, MICHAEL,
• HerausgeberIn: Jäger, Ludwig,; Linz, Erika,; Schneider, Irmela,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2014]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1. Aufl.
• Language: English
• Series: Kultur- und Medientheorie
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (464 p.)

Current 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 Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Mediality: Concepts and Models -- Differentiating Media -- The Medium as Form -- Transcriptivity Matters: On the Logic of Intra- and Intermedial References in Aesthetic Discourse -- Original Copy—Secondary Practices -- 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) -- Discourses: Dispositives and Politics -- Picture Events: Abu Ghraib -- Voice Politics: Establishing the ‘Loud/Speaker’ in the Political Communication of National Socialism -- Electricity, Spirit Mediums, and the Media of Spirits -- Normativity and 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’ and ‘Instrument’ -- Procedures: Aesthetics and Modes -- In Between Languages—In Between Cultures: Walter Benjamin’s “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 and Literary Transcription in Johann Caspar Lavater and Georg Christoph Lichtenberg -- Ultraparadoxical: On the Gravity of the Human Experiment in Pavlov and Pynchon -- Bastards: Text/Image Hybrids in Pop Writing by Rolf Dieter Brinkmann and Others -- AUTHORS