Screen Library(Dis)orienting media and narrative mazes /
(Dis)Orientation appears to be a phenomenon that is connected to media in numerous respects: today, finding your way in the world often means finding your way with the help of as well as within media, which in turn creates new virtual realms of (dis)orientation. This book deals with recent media tec...
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transcript Verlag,
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| Publisher Address: | Bielefeld : |
| Publication Dates: |
2014. ©2012 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Kultur- und Medientheorie. |
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| Online Access: |
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| Summary: |
(Dis)Orientation appears to be a phenomenon that is connected to media in numerous respects: today, finding your way in the world often means finding your way with the help of as well as within media, which in turn creates new virtual realms of (dis)orientation. This book deals with recent media technologies and structures (navigation devices, databases, transmediality) and unconventional narrative patterns (narrative complexity, plot twists, non-linearity), using the ambivalent concept of (dis)orientation as a shared focus to analyse various phenomena of contemporary media, thereby raising overarching questions about current mediascapes. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (320 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9783839423387 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | P90 |
| CLC: | G206.3-05 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- (Dis)Orienting Media and Narrative Mazes / The Medium is the Method / The Booth as an "Other Space" / Lost in Digitalisation? / (Dis)Orienting Memory / Go Play Outside! / Captivating Screens / TV for the Post-TV Generation? / Re-orienting Romantic Comedy / Serial Orientations / You re Supposed to Be Confused! / Amazing Maze / Ants, Games, Brains / Navigation in Complex Films / Leaving the Narrative Maze / Twisted Times / When the Past Lies Ahead and the Future Lags Behind / About the Authors. |