TY - BOOK AU - Funk,Wolfgang AU - Groß,Florian AU - Huber,Irmtraud TI - The Aesthetics of Authenticity: Medial Constructions of the Real T2 - Kultur- und Medientheorie SN - 9783837617573 U1 - 810.938 22/ger PY - 2014///] CY - Bielefeld : PB - transcript Verlag, KW - Aesthetics KW - Authenticity KW - Cultural Theory KW - Culture KW - Literature KW - Media Aesthetics KW - Media Studies KW - Media Theory KW - Music KW - Representation KW - Television KW - Theory of Literature KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies KW - bisacsh N1 - restricted access N2 - As a concept that increasingly gains importance in contemporary cultural discourse, authenticity emerges as a site of tearing tensions between the fictional and the real, original and fake, margin and centre, the same and the other.The essays collected in this volume explore this paradoxical nature of authenticity in the context of various media. They give ample proof of the fact that authenticity, which depends on giving the impression of being inherent or natural, found not created, frequently turns out to be the result of a careful aesthetic construction that depends on the use of identifiable techniques with the aim of achieving certain effects for certain reasons UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783839417577 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783839417577/original ER -