Critical Terms for Media Studies

Mitchell, W. J. T. (Editor)/ Hansen, Mark B. N. (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0226532550 / ISBN 13: 9780226532554

Editore: Univ of Chicago Pr, 2010

432 pages. 8.75x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand. Codice articolo __0226532550

Riassunto:

Communications, philosophy, film and video, digital culture: media studies straddles an astounding array of fields and disciplines and produces a vocabulary that is in equal parts rigorous and intuitive. Critical Terms for Media Studies defines, and at times, redefines, what this new and hybrid area aims to do, illuminating the key concepts behind its liveliest debates and most dynamic topics.

Part of a larger conversation that engages culture, technology, and politics, this exciting collection of essays explores our most critical language for dealing with the qualities and modes of contemporary media. Edited by two outstanding scholars in the field, W. J. T. Mitchell and Mark B. N. Hansen, the volume features works by a team of distinguished contributors. These essays, commissioned expressly for this volume, are organized into three interrelated groups: “Aesthetics” engages with terms that describe sensory experiences and judgments, “Technology” offers entry into a broad array of technological concepts, and “Society” opens up language describing the systems that allow a medium to function.

A compelling reference work for the twenty-first century and the media that form our experience within it, Critical Terms for Media Studies will engage and deepen any reader’s knowledge of one of our most important new fields.

Informazioni sull'autore:

W. J. T. Mitchell is the Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature and in the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago. He is the author or editor of nine books published by the University of Chicago Press, including What Do Pictures Want? The Lives and Loves of Images.Mark B. N. Hansen is professor of literature and arts of the moving image at Duke University. He is the author ofNew Philosophy for New Media, among other titles.

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Titolo: Critical Terms for Media Studies
Casa editrice: Univ of Chicago Pr
Data di pubblicazione: 2010
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Brand New