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Television Studies and Research on Series
Zusammenfassung: Television series enjoy an unbroken - popular as well as scholarly - attention. It is surprising, however, that in works on seriality in media and cultural studies, approaches to television studies and television history still play a rather minor role. Yet seriality must always be thought of in terms of television, since the two have always been indissolubly interwoven - economically, technically, and aesthetically. But what else constitutes the serial in television and how does it change its face in times of digitalization, streaming and interactivity? Is it possible to think of a genuine serial theory of the televisual - and what, in turn, can be learned from this for seri...
Post-Mass-Media and Participation
30 Jahre nachdem Félix Guattari den Begriff des Postmassenmedialen als notwendige Bedingung medialer Teilhabe eingeführt hat, wirkt er weiterhin in den Arbeiten nachfolgender Generationen nach. Dass ein Konzept, das auf politisches Geschehen und technische Entwicklungen bis hin zur Zäsur von 1989 reagiert, noch heute den wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs beschäftigt, ist jedoch nicht selbstverständlich. Diese Ausgabe der AugenBlick, die im Umfeld der DFG-Forscher:innengruppe Mediale Teilhabe entstanden ist, unterstreicht die Notwendigkeit, aufmerksam die sich wandelnden Formen politischer und künstlerischer Partizipation im sogenannten "postmedialen Zeitalter" zu betrachten. Die hier versammelten Beiträge formulieren dabei keine Medientheorie der Ermöglichung von Teilhabe. Viel eher tritt das Postmassenmediale selbst als eine Frage der Teilhabe hervor, die in sich medial begriffen werden muss. Dieser Rahmen erlaubt es, das Postmassenmediale in unserer gegenwärtigen techno-politischen Situation zu verorten. So tritt es uns in Arbeiten zu Videospielen, dokumentarischen Projekten, YouTube, Ästhetik und Ethik des Politischen und in Meditationen zur Pandemie entgegen
Religion and Film
Is cinema evil, or sacramental? Can films make theological contributions? Can film-viewing be a religious practice? How do films, values and power interact? The study of film and religion engages a range of diverse questions through different approaches and methods. In this contribution, I distinguish three complementary approaches. In the first part, I discuss those that focus on the film as text, the representation of religion in film, and how theology happens in film. The next section will broaden this perspective by taking into consideration how films affect audiences, and how the relationship between film and audience might have religious dimensions or serve religious functions. In the ...
Konfrontation und Kommunikation
Konfrontation und Kommunikation: entscheidende politische Weichenstellungen. So lautet der Schwerpunkt der perspektivends 2/24, der sich mit unterschiedlichen Zeitdiagnosen beschäftigt, denen allesamt gewiss ist, dass die Weichen in die Zukunft derzeit neu gestellt werden. Aber wohin entwickelt sich die Spätmoderne, doch kaum zum Besseren? Was ist mit Demokratie, Frieden, gutem Leben, Ökologie, KI? Wieweit muss die Konfrontation gegen Rechtspopulismus und neuen Faschismus nicht verbunden werden mit neuer Kommunikation, die die Verhältnisse wieder für demokratisch gestaltbar hält und Zuversicht ausstrahlt? Autoren u.a. Richard Stöss, Gregor Fitzi, Stephan Gorol, Johano Strasser
A Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome on Screen
A comprehensive treatment of the Classical World in film and television, A Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome on Screen closely examines the films and TV shows centered on Greek and Roman cultures and explores the tension between pagan and Christian worlds. Written by a team of experts in their fields, this work considers productions that discuss social settings as reflections of their times and as indicative of the technical advances in production and the economics of film and television. Productions included are a mix of Hollywood and European spanning from the silent film era though modern day television series, and topics discussed include Hollywood politics in film, soundtrack and sou...
Image and Territory
In a culture that often understands formal experimentation or theoretical argument to be antithetical to pleasure, Atom Egoyan has nevertheless consistently appealed to wide audiences around the world. If films like The Adjuster, Calendar, Exotica, and The Sweet Hereafter have ensured him international cult status as one of the most revered of all contemporary directors, Egoyan's forays into installation art and opera have provided evidence of his versatility and confirmed his talents. Throughout his career, Atom Egoyan has shown himself to possess the rarest kind of singularity. As Jonathan Romney puts it, Egoyanþs 2preoccupations and tropes have been so consistent that he's practically cr...
The Quay Brothers
The complex, special power of the Quay Brothers' puppet animation poetics.
The German Greens
The Greens have been not only a political force and social conscience for Germany before reunification and after but also an inspiration to political groups and movements in many other countries. The Greens have raised the issues of ecology, gender, and grassroots democracy in protest against government. They have also had the rare opportunity to try converting themselves into a political party that works within the system. This is a book about their paradoxical situation and about the dilemmas all advocates of change face when they become powerful enough to negotiate with the status quo. The critical essays by German social scientists and activists also provide a detailed picture of the dyn...
Enchanted by Cinema
William Thiele is remembered today as the father of the sound film operetta with seminal classics such as Drei von der Tankstelle (1930). While often considered among the most accomplished directors of Late Weimar cinema, as an Austrian Jew he was vilified during the onset of the Nazi regime in 1933 and fled to the United States where he continued making films until the end of his career in 1960. Enchanted by Cinema closely examines the European musical film pioneer’s work and his cross-cultural perspective across forty years of filmography in Berlin and Hollywood to account for his popularity while discussing issues of ethnicity, exile, comedy, music, gender, and race.
Formen des Archivbildes
YouTube und andere Videoplattformen üben massiven Einfluss auf unser kollektives Gedächtnis aus. Im Zuge der steigenden Bedeutung dieser Archive des Internetzeitalters haben auch spektakuläre Spielfilmproduktionen Hochkonjunktur, die auf Archivbilder von markanten historischen Ereignissen zurückgreifen. Vier Filme der jüngsten Filmgeschichte belegen herausragend die neue Aktualität des "Archivbildfilms": Clint Eastwoods zweiteiliges Epos FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS (2006)/LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA (2006), Steven Soderberghs THE GOOD GERMAN – IN DEN RUINEN VON BERLIN (2006) und Sam Mendes' JARHEAD – WILLKOMMEN IM DRECK (2005). Entlang dieser Filme stellt die Autorin die entscheidende Frage, wie wir uns in Zukunft erinnern werden: in Bildern oder an Bilder?
