(Dis)orienting media and narrative mazes /

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Imprint:Bielefeld : Transcript Verlag, [2013]
Description:319 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Kultur- und Medientheorie
Kultur- und Medientheorie.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9291243
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Other authors / contributors:Eckel, Julia, 1982-
ISBN:9783837623383 (pbk.)
3837623386 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: (Dis)Orienting Media and Narrative Mazes
  • (Dis)Orienting Media
  • Spatiality
  • The Medium is the Method: Locative Media for Digital Archives
  • The Booth as an "Other Space": Medial Positionings
  • (Dis)Orienting Databases
  • Lost in Digitalisation?: Profiles as Means of Orientation in Computer-based Media Cultures Julius Othmer
  • (Dis)Orientlng Memory: Shoah Testimonies in the Virtual Archive
  • Productive Aberrations
  • Go Play Outside!: Game Glitches
  • Captivating Screens: On 'Manipulation Aesthetics' as Style and Topos
  • Negotiating Boundaries
  • TV for the Post-TV Generation?: How Transmedia Television Series Yearn for Another Type of Audience
  • Re-orienting Romantic Comedy: Genre Negotiations in Richard Linktater's Before Sunrise
  • Narrative Mazes
  • Televisual (Dis)Orientation
  • Serial Orientations: Paratexts and Contemporary Complex Television
  • You're Supposed to Be Confused!: (Dis)Orienting Narrative Mazes in Televisual Complex Narrations
  • Filmic Incoherences
  • Amazing Maze: On the Concept of Diegese, Possible Worlds, and the Aesthetics of Illness
  • Ants, Games, Brains: The Complexity of Reality in Darren Aronofsky's ¿
  • Narrative Re-orientation
  • Navigation in Complex Films: Real-life Embodied Experiences Underlying Narrative Categorisation
  • Leaving the Narrative Maze: The Plot Twist as a Device of Re-orientation
  • Temporality
  • Twisted Times: Non-linearity and Temporal Disorientation in Contemporary Cinema
  • When the Past Lies Ahead and the Future Lags Behind: Backward Narration in Film, Television, and Literature Matthias Brütsch
  • Appendix
  • About the Authors