Travels in Intermediality: ReBlurring the Boundaries
edited by Bernd Herzogenrath
Dartmouth College Press, 2012 eISBN: 978-1-61168-261-8 | Cloth: 978-1-61168-259-5 | Paper: 978-1-61168-260-1 Library of Congress Classification NX180.M3T73 2012 Dewey Decimal Classification 700.108
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
How do fiction, film, music, the Internet, and plastic, performative, and fine arts negotiate their shapes, formats, and contents in our contemporary world? More important, how does their interaction shape their techniques of representation, strategies of communication, and forms of reception? In the light of these ongoing interactive (and intermedial) processes, the fields of cultural studies and American studies are challenged to restructure and reorganize themselves. Less interested in the mere fact of traditional art forms meeting new media such as film, video, and digital arts, this collection concentrates on the ways in which the fundamental theoretical constructs of the media have forever changed. This book offers the latest in global intermedial studies, including discussions of digital photography, comics and graphic novels, performance art, techno, hypertext, and video games.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
BERND HERZOGENRATH is a professor of American studies at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
REVIEWS
“This collection offers a remarkably broad and diverse set of studies addressing advanced notions of mediation, complexity, and hybridity in the semiotic sphere, crossing an impressive range of interests and disciplines. Anyone concerned with the future of humanistic studies in rapidly changing social and technical contexts will find this book enormously valuable.”—Stuart Moulthrop, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
“Travels in Intermedial[ity] crosses over a diverse and theoretically-nuanced range of contemporary media practices and European and American media philosophies. As significant, the book—the mixed, rigorously tangled whole of it—enacts a version of the liminalities that its authors address: at the intersections of these sophisticated and varied chapters the reader will discern evidence of an arch-intermediality, from which (as Herzogenrath proposes), modern media studies has been extracted.” —Terry Harpold, author of Ex-foliations: Reading Machines and the Upgrade Path
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments • Travels in Intermedia[lity]: An Introduction – Bernd Herzogenrath • Four Models of Intermediality – Jens Schröter • Intermediality in Media Philosophy – Katerina Krtilova • Realism and the Digital Image – W. J. T. Mitchell • Mother’s Little Nightmare: Photographic and Monstrous Genealogies in David Lynch’s The Elephant Man – Lars Nowak • Laughs: The Misappropriated Jewels, or A Close Shave for the Prima Donna – Michel Serres • Words and Images in the Contemporary American Graphic Novel – Jan Baetens • Music for the Jilted Generation: Techno and | as Intermediality – Bernd Herzogenrath • Genuine Thought Is Inter(medial) – Julia Meier • Theater and Music: Intermedial Negotiations – Ivana Brozi • The Novel as Hypertext: Mapping Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day – Brian W. Chanen • Delightful Vistas: Revisiting the Hypertext Garden – Mark Bernstein • Playing Research: Methodological Approaches to Game Analysis – Espen Aarseth • The Nonessentialist Essentialist Guide to Games – Erik Champion • “Turn your Radio on”: Intermediality in the Computer Game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – Gunter Süss • Television as Network—Network as Television: Experiments in Content and Community – Ben Sassen • Social Media and the Future of Political Narrative – Jay David Bolter • Contributors • Index
Travels in Intermediality: ReBlurring the Boundaries
edited by Bernd Herzogenrath
Dartmouth College Press, 2012 eISBN: 978-1-61168-261-8 Cloth: 978-1-61168-259-5 Paper: 978-1-61168-260-1
How do fiction, film, music, the Internet, and plastic, performative, and fine arts negotiate their shapes, formats, and contents in our contemporary world? More important, how does their interaction shape their techniques of representation, strategies of communication, and forms of reception? In the light of these ongoing interactive (and intermedial) processes, the fields of cultural studies and American studies are challenged to restructure and reorganize themselves. Less interested in the mere fact of traditional art forms meeting new media such as film, video, and digital arts, this collection concentrates on the ways in which the fundamental theoretical constructs of the media have forever changed. This book offers the latest in global intermedial studies, including discussions of digital photography, comics and graphic novels, performance art, techno, hypertext, and video games.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
BERND HERZOGENRATH is a professor of American studies at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
REVIEWS
“This collection offers a remarkably broad and diverse set of studies addressing advanced notions of mediation, complexity, and hybridity in the semiotic sphere, crossing an impressive range of interests and disciplines. Anyone concerned with the future of humanistic studies in rapidly changing social and technical contexts will find this book enormously valuable.”—Stuart Moulthrop, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
“Travels in Intermedial[ity] crosses over a diverse and theoretically-nuanced range of contemporary media practices and European and American media philosophies. As significant, the book—the mixed, rigorously tangled whole of it—enacts a version of the liminalities that its authors address: at the intersections of these sophisticated and varied chapters the reader will discern evidence of an arch-intermediality, from which (as Herzogenrath proposes), modern media studies has been extracted.” —Terry Harpold, author of Ex-foliations: Reading Machines and the Upgrade Path
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments • Travels in Intermedia[lity]: An Introduction – Bernd Herzogenrath • Four Models of Intermediality – Jens Schröter • Intermediality in Media Philosophy – Katerina Krtilova • Realism and the Digital Image – W. J. T. Mitchell • Mother’s Little Nightmare: Photographic and Monstrous Genealogies in David Lynch’s The Elephant Man – Lars Nowak • Laughs: The Misappropriated Jewels, or A Close Shave for the Prima Donna – Michel Serres • Words and Images in the Contemporary American Graphic Novel – Jan Baetens • Music for the Jilted Generation: Techno and | as Intermediality – Bernd Herzogenrath • Genuine Thought Is Inter(medial) – Julia Meier • Theater and Music: Intermedial Negotiations – Ivana Brozi • The Novel as Hypertext: Mapping Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day – Brian W. Chanen • Delightful Vistas: Revisiting the Hypertext Garden – Mark Bernstein • Playing Research: Methodological Approaches to Game Analysis – Espen Aarseth • The Nonessentialist Essentialist Guide to Games – Erik Champion • “Turn your Radio on”: Intermediality in the Computer Game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – Gunter Süss • Television as Network—Network as Television: Experiments in Content and Community – Ben Sassen • Social Media and the Future of Political Narrative – Jay David Bolter • Contributors • Index
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC