ISBN:
9780203883433
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (224 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Convergence, media, history
DDC:
302.23
Keywords:
Mass media Social aspects
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Electronic books
;
Mass media - Social aspects
;
Electronic books
;
Massenmedien
;
Rezeption
;
Geschichte
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Massenmedien
;
Rezeption
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
Convergence Media History explores the ways that digital convergence has radically changed the field of media history. Writing media history is no longer a matter of charting the historical development of an individual medium such as film or television. Instead, now that various media from blockbuster films to everyday computer use intersect regularly via convergence, scholars must find new ways to write media history across multiple media formats. This collection of eighteen new essays by leading media historians and scholars examines the issues today in writing media history and histories. Each essay addresses a single medium-including film, television, advertising, sound recording, new media, and more-and connects that specific medium's history to larger issues for the field in writing multi-media or convergent histories. Among the volume's topics are new media technologies and their impact on traditional approaches to media history; alternative accounts of film production and exhibition, with a special emphasis on film across multiple media platforms; the changing relationships between audiences, fans, and consumers within media culture; and the globalization of our media culture.
Abstract:
Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I New Methods -- Chapter 1 From Accented Cinema to Multiplex Cinema -- Chapter 2 Franchise Histories: Marvel, X-Men, and the Negotiated Process of Expansion -- Chapter 3 When Pierre Bourdieu Meets the Political Economists: RKO and the Leftists-in-Hollywood Problematic -- Chapter 4 Touch, Taste, Breath: Synaesthesia, Sense Memory, and the Selling of Cigarettes on Television, 1948-1971 -- Chapter 5 Rewiring Media History: Intermedial Borders -- Part II New Subjects -- Chapter 6 Provincial Modernity?: Film Exhibition at the 1907 Jamestown Exposition -- Chapter 7 Exhibition in Mexico During the Early 1920s: Nationalist Discourse and Transnational Capital -- Chapter 8 The Recording Industry's Role in Media History -- Chapter 9 Forging a Citizen Audience: Broadcasting from the 1920s through the 1940s -- Chapter 10 Bobby Jones, Warner Bros., and the Short Instructional Film -- Part III New Approaches -- Chapter 11 Bonding with the Crowd: Silent Film Stars, Liveness, and the Public Sphere -- Chapter 12 The Comfort of Carnage: Neorealism and America's World Understanding -- Chapter 13 "Talk About Bad Taste": Camp, Cult, and the Reception of What's New Pussycat? -- Chapter 14 Selling Out, Buying In: Brakhage, Warhol, and BAVC -- Chapter 15 Whatever Happened to the Movie-of-the-Week?: [The Shocking True Story of How Made-For-TV Movies Disappeared from the Broadcast Networks] -- Part IV Research Issues -- Chapter 16 Doing Soap Opera History: Challenges and Triumphs -- Chapter 17 Stalking the Wild Evidence: Capturing Media History Through Elusive and Ephemeral Archives -- Chapter 18 Historicizing Web Design: Software, Style, and the Look of the Web -- Bibliography on Media Historiography -- Contributors.
Description / Table of Contents:
pt. I. New methods -- pt. II. New subjects -- pt. III. New Approaches -- pt. IV. Research issues.
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URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=446641
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