Screen LibraryCommunication of love : mediatized intimacy from love letters to SMS. Interdisciplinary and historical studies /
By the end of the twentieth century certain new media had established themselves which have profoundly changed communication among lovers. SMS and email in particular have created new relational forms and forms of intimacy. From declarations of love on talk shows to televised dating games and marria...
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transcript Verlag,
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| Publisher Address: | Bielefeld : |
| Publication Dates: | 2014. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Kultur- und Medientheorie
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By the end of the twentieth century certain new media had established themselves which have profoundly changed communication among lovers. SMS and email in particular have created new relational forms and forms of intimacy. From declarations of love on talk shows to televised dating games and marriage quiz shows, television offers a panoply of wildly popular theatrical communications of love. Does the neglecting of traditional communication media, such as love letters and the telephone, cause the intermingling of intimacy with the public sphere and hence the abrogation of it? From the disciplines of sociology, history, cultural and media studies and linguistics, this book offers answers to this question by analyzing and discussing new media from various perspectives. Contributions by Eva Illouz, Joachim R. H flich, Friedrich Krotz, Helga Kotthoff, Karl Lenz, Sabine Maasen, and others. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (326 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9783839424445 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | BF575 |
| CLC: | B842.6 |
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- INTRODUCTION: Mediatized Intimacy. / Of Rationality and Passions / How Love Relationships begin. Communication Patterns in Change -- Intimacy in How-To Books: The Passion of Self-Change Work / Intimate Communication on the Internet: How Digital Media are Changing our Lives at the Microlevel / Let s Let the Devil Out! How the Public Deals with the Private / Adolescent girls on the phone: The management of dating and social networking / The Mobile Phone: Bringing the Private into the Public. / Investigating Love Letters Across Time: Semiotic, Sociolinguistic and Cognitive Problems and Perspectives / From the Bridal Letter to Online Flirting: Changes in Text Type from the 19th Century to the Internet Era / Letters Between Home and the Front: Expressions of Love in World War II "Feldpost" Letters / "Aesthetic Brutality" and "Boundless Candor": Mediation of Love in the Eighteenth-Century Letter / Affectionate Titbits: Postcards as a Medium for Love around 1900 / Communicating a Message of Love through Singing / The Medial Persona. Tectonics of the Medial Imaginarium / Window-Dressing: Fetishistic Transactions in Fictional Prose by Oskar Panizza and Thomas Mann Claudia Lieb -- About the Authors. |