Article:
Kunst – Künste, Medium – Medien: Film als zentrale Instanz. Ein Debattenbeitrag zum Verhältnis von Kunst und Medienwissenschaft

Author(s): Wahl, Chris

Abstract

It is quite noticeable for any frequent reader how often the words «medium» and «art» are used in texts about films; not less obvious, however, is the fact that these words and their relation to films lack a proper definition. There seems to be no agreement about if and when a film is a medium or art and what this entails. Just as unclear is the term «film» itself. In many cases it's used as a synonym for «cinema», in others the aim is to differentiate between both terms; a coherent and logical approach is missing. The text proposes to understand films as audiovisual moving images and therefore as the central authority for a negotiation between the four fields medium, media, art, and arts the definition of which is the key issue of this article.

Download icon

Published in:

Preferred Citation
BibTex
Wahl, Chris: Kunst – Künste, Medium – Medien: Film als zentrale Instanz. Ein Debattenbeitrag zum Verhältnis von Kunst und Medienwissenschaft. In: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, Jg. 6 (2014), Nr. 1, S. 143-149. DOI: 10.25969/mediarep/1130.
@ARTICLE{Wahl2014,
 author = {Wahl, Chris},
 title = {Kunst – Künste, Medium – Medien: Film als zentrale Instanz. Ein Debattenbeitrag zum Verhältnis von Kunst und Medienwissenschaft},
 year = 2014,
 doi = {10.25969/mediarep/1130},
 volume = 6,
 address = {Zürich},
 journal = {Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft},
 number = 1,
 pages = {143--149},
}
Keywords
license icon

The item has been published with the following license: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz