Epistolary Entanglements in Film, Media and the Visual Arts / / ed. by Fowler, Teri Higgins.

This collection departs from the observation that online forms of communication—the email, blog, text message, tweet—are actually haunted by old epistolary forms: the letter and the diary. By examining the omnipresence of writing across a variety of media, the collection adds the category of Epistol...

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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Film Culture in Transition
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.)
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Table of Contents --
Acknowledgements --
Doing (Audio-Visual) Things with Words – From Epistolary Intent to Epistolary Entanglements: An Introduction --
1. Performance and Power : The Letter as an Expression of Masculinity in Game of Thrones --
2. ‘My dearest little girl, I just got your letter and I hope that you will continue to write to me often’ --
3. Dead Letters --
4. Attention to Detail: Epistolary Forms in New Melodrama --
5. The Spiritual Intimacies of The Red Hand Files: How Long Will I Be Alone? --
6. Video Authenticity and Epistolary Self- Expression in Letter to America (Kira Muratova, 1999) --
7. Epistolary Affect and Romance Scams: Letter from an Unknown Woman --
8. Delivering Posthumous Messages : Katherine Mansfield and Letters in the Literary Biopic Leave All Fair (John Reid, 1985) --
9. The Interactive Letter : Co-Authorship and Interactive Media in Emily Short’s First Draft of the Revolution --
10. Epistolary Distance and Reciprocity in José Luis Guerín and Jonas Mekas’s Filmed Correspondences --
11. Instagram and the Diary : The Case of Amalia Ulman’s Excellences & Perfections (2014) --
12. Civil War Epistolary and the Hollywood War Film --
13. Epistolarity and Decolonial Aesthetics in Carola Grahn’s Look Who’s Talking (2016) --
14. Epistolary Relays in Fatih Akin’s Auf der anderen Seite (On the Other Side/ On the Edge of Heaven) (2007) --
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Summary:This collection departs from the observation that online forms of communication—the email, blog, text message, tweet—are actually haunted by old epistolary forms: the letter and the diary. By examining the omnipresence of writing across a variety of media, the collection adds the category of Epistolary Screens to genres of self-expression, both literary (letters, diaries, auto-biographies) and screenic (romance dramas, intercultural cinema, essay films, artists’ videos and online media). The category Epistolary encapsulates an increasingly paradoxical relation between writing and the self: first, it describes selves that are written in graphic detail via letters, diaries, blogs, texts, emails and tweets; second, it acknowledges that absence complicates communication, bringing people together in an entangled rather than ordered way. The collection concerns itself with the changing visual/textual texture of screen media and examines what is at stake for our understanding of self-expression when it takes Epistolary forms.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9789048555116
9783110767094
9783110767001
9783110993899
9783110994810
9783110993752
9783110993738
DOI:10.1515/9789048555116?locatt=mode:legacy
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Fowler, Teri Higgins.