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Playing at a Distance. Borderlands of the Video Game Aesthetic
(2022)An essential exploration of video game aesthetic that decenters the human player and challenges what it means to play. Do we play video games or do video games play us? Is nonhuman play a mere paradox or the future of ... -
Found Foto-Film. Aneignungen analoger Fotografie im zeitgenössischen Essay- und Dokumentarfilm
(2022)Analoge Fotografien begegnen uns im digitalen Zeitalter oft als Dinge, die – nachdem sie verwahrt, verloren oder sogar weggeworfen worden waren – (wieder-)gefunden werden. Die Faszination für solche gefundenen Fotos spiegelt ... -
Techniken der Täuschung. Eine Kultur- und Mediengeschichte der Bühnenzauberkunst im späten neunzehnten Jahrhundert
(2020)Katharina Reins preisgekrönte kulturwissenschaftliche Dissertation widmet sich der Bühnenzauberkunst im Zeitraum von ca. 1860 bis 1910, der von wissenschaftlicher und technischer Innovation ebenso geprägt war wie von einer ... -
Playful Materialities. The Stuff That Games Are Made Of
(2022)Game culture and material culture have always been closely linked. Analog forms of rule-based play (ludus) would hardly be conceivable without dice, cards, and game boards. In the act of free play (paidia), children as ... -
Comics and Videogames. From Hybrid Medialities to Transmedia Expansions
(2021)This book offers the first comprehensive study of the many interfaces shaping the relationship between comics and videogames. It combines in-depth conceptual reflection with a rich selection of paradigmatic case studies ... -
Invective Gaze – Das digitale Bild und die Kultur der Beschämung
(2022)Der schaulüsterne Blick: Bilder adressieren affektive Register, fördern somit voyeuristische Tendenzen wie Glotzen, Gaffen und den Drang, sich oder andere im Bild zu exponieren. Digitale Medien ermöglichen direkte Beteiligung ... -
Fankulturen und Fankommunikation
(2022)In der medien- und kulturanalytischen Linguistik hat sich ein lebendiges Interesse an Fans, Fanpraktiken und Fankulturen entwickelt. Insbesondere in den Sozialen Medien lassen sich die Erlebnis- und Inszenierungsformen von ... -
Social Media and Social Order
(2021)Social Media and Social Order combines a structural analysis of the global impact of social media as contributing to the production of a datafied social order with a series of actor-focused analyses, each examining how ... -
Precarity in European Film. Depictions and Discourses
(2022)This volume brings together renowned scholars and early career-researchers in mapping the ways in which European cinema —whether arthouse or mainstream, fictional or documentary, working with traditional or new media— ... -
Labour in a Single Shot. Critical Perspectives on Antje Ehmann und Harun Farocki's Global Video Project
(2022)This collection of essays offers a critical assessment of Labour in a Single Shot, a groundbreaking documentary video workshop. From 2011 to 2014, curator Antje Ehmann and film- and videomaker Harun Farocki produced an art ... -
Persuasive Gaming in Context
(2021)The rapid developments of new communication technologies have facilitated the popularization of digital games, which has translated into an exponential growth of the game industry in the last decades. The ubiquitous presence ... -
Narrative Mechanics. Strategies and Meanings in Games and Real Life
(2021)This book identifies narrative strategies as mechanisms for meaning and manipulation in games and real life. It shows that the narrative mechanics so clearly identifiable in games are increasingly used (and abused) in ... -
Intermedial Studies. An Introduction to Meaning across Media
(2021)Intermedial Studies provides a concise, hands-on introduction to the analysis of a broad array of texts from a variety of media – including literature, film, music, performance, news and videogames, addressing fiction and ... -
Game Production Studies
(2021)Video games have entered the cultural mainstream and in terms of economic profits they now rival established entertainment industries such as film or television. As careers in video game development become more common, so ... -
Anime Studies. Media-Specific Approaches to Neon Genesis Evangelion
(2021)Anime Studies: Media-Specific Approaches to Neon Genesis Evangelion aims at advancing the study of anime, understood as largely TV-based genre fiction rendered in cel, or cel-look, animation with a strong affinity to ... -
Fahradutopien. Medien, Ästhetiken und Aktivismus
(2022)Das Fahrrad ist ein Medium sozialer Veränderung. Seine vielfältigen utopischen Potenziale ergeben sich nicht zuletzt aus seinen ebenso vielfältigen und häufig übersehenen medialen Qualitäten: Es vermittelt, es verbindet, ... -
Embodying Contagion. The Viropolitics of Horror and Desire in Contemporary Discourse
(2021)From Outbreak to The Walking Dead, apocalyptic narratives of infection, contagion and global pandemic are an inescapable part of twenty-first-century popular culture. Yet these fears and fantasies are too virulent to be ... -
Interactive Documentary Production and Societal Impact: The Case of Field Trip
(2021)In den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten haben sich Storyteller in eine besonders aktive Periode der Innovation begeben. Im Bereich des Dokumentarfilms wurden Webtechnologien entwickelt und kombiniert, um komplexe und multiperspektivische ...