Epistolary Entanglements in Film, Media and the Visual Arts

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  DESCRIPTION

  274 p.

  SERIES

  Film Culture in Transition
  

  DISCIPLINES

  • Public performances
  • Recreation. Leisure

  NOTE

  • 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 Epistol
  • ary forms. [Publisher's text].
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