Audiovisions : Cinema and Television as Entr'actes in History
by Siegfried Zielinski
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press 1999
ISBN/ASIN: 905356313X
ISBN-13: 9789053563137
Number of pages: 360
Description:
The book reconstructs the complex genesis of cinema and television as historically relative - and thus finite - cultural forms, focussing on the dynamics and tension in the interaction between the apparatus and its uses. It is also a plea for 'staying power' in studies of cultural technology and technological culture of film.
Download or read it online for free here:
Download link
(57MB, PDF)
Similar books
Media and Cultural Theoryby Stephen Hill, Bevis Fenner - BookBoon
This is an ideal guidebook for undergraduates studying a range of Media and Cultural Studies courses. Alongside more traditional forms like film, television and music, the book also makes reference to Facebook, YouTube and MySpace.
(14459 views)
Media and Participation: A site of ideological-democratic struggleby Nico Carpentier - Intellect Ltd
This book looks at participation as a structurally unstable concept and as the object of a political struggle that makes it oscillate between minimalist and maximalist versions. This struggle is analysed in theoretical reflections in five fields.
(6984 views)
Cross-Media Communicationsby Drew Davidson et al. - Carnegie Mellon University
An introduction to the future of mass media and mass communications - cross-media communications. Cross-media is explained through the presentation and analysis of contemporary examples and project-based tutorials in cross-media development.
(11896 views)
Digital Material: Tracing New Media in Everyday Life and Technologyby Marianne van den Boomen, et al. - Amsterdam University Press
The authors assembled their 'digital material' into an anthology, covering issues ranging from desktop metaphors to Web 2.0 ecosystems, from touch screens to blogging and e-learning, from role-playing games and cybergothic music to wireless dreams.
(7723 views)