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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Best, Susan
• Coopey, Louise
• Fowler, Catherine
• Higgins, Teri
• Higgins, Teri[Herausgeber]
• Kwa, Shiamin
• Molina, David G
• Ng, Jenna
• Redmond, Sean
• Simmons, Rochelle
• Simon, Sunka
• Sprengler, Christine
• Steyerl, Hito
• Trafton, John
• Çağlayan, Emre

Titel

Epistolary Entanglements in Film, Media and the Visual Arts

Ist Teil von

• Film Culture in Transition

Ort / Verlag

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

[2022]

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

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• This collection departs from the observation that online forms of communication—the email, blog, text message, tweet—are actually haunted by old epistolary forms: the letter and the diary. By examining the omnipresence of writing across a variety of media, the collection adds the category of Epistolary Screens to genres of self-expression, both literary (letters, diaries, auto-biographies) and screenic (romance dramas, intercultural cinema, essay films, artists’ videos and online media). The category Epistolary encapsulates an increasingly paradoxical relation between writing and the self: first, it describes selves that are written in graphic detail via letters, diaries, blogs, texts, emails and tweets; second, it acknowledges that absence complicates communication, bringing people together in an entangled rather than ordered way. The collection concerns itself with the changing visual/textual texture of screen media and examines what is at stake for our understanding of self-expression when it takes Epistolary forms