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Epistolary Entanglements in Film, Media and the Visual Arts / ed. by Fowler, Teri Higgins.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Film Culture in TransitionPublisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 1 online resource (280 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789048555116
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43657 23
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Doing (Audio-Visual) Things with Words – From Epistolary Intent to Epistolary Entanglements: An Introduction -- 1. Performance and Power : The Letter as an Expression of Masculinity in Game of Thrones -- 2. ‘My dearest little girl, I just got your letter and I hope that you will continue to write to me often’ -- 3. Dead Letters -- 4. Attention to Detail: Epistolary Forms in New Melodrama -- 5. The Spiritual Intimacies of The Red Hand Files: How Long Will I Be Alone? -- 6. Video Authenticity and Epistolary Self- Expression in Letter to America (Kira Muratova, 1999) -- 7. Epistolary Affect and Romance Scams: Letter from an Unknown Woman -- 8. Delivering Posthumous Messages : Katherine Mansfield and Letters in the Literary Biopic Leave All Fair (John Reid, 1985) -- 9. The Interactive Letter : Co-Authorship and Interactive Media in Emily Short’s First Draft of the Revolution -- 10. Epistolary Distance and Reciprocity in José Luis Guerín and Jonas Mekas’s Filmed Correspondences -- 11. Instagram and the Diary : The Case of Amalia Ulman’s Excellences & Perfections (2014) -- 12. Civil War Epistolary and the Hollywood War Film -- 13. Epistolarity and Decolonial Aesthetics in Carola Grahn’s Look Who’s Talking (2016) -- 14. Epistolary Relays in Fatih Akin’s Auf der anderen Seite (On the Other Side/ On the Edge of Heaven) (2007) -- Index
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Doing (Audio-Visual) Things with Words – From Epistolary Intent to Epistolary Entanglements: An Introduction -- 1. Performance and Power : The Letter as an Expression of Masculinity in Game of Thrones -- 2. ‘My dearest little girl, I just got your letter and I hope that you will continue to write to me often’ -- 3. Dead Letters -- 4. Attention to Detail: Epistolary Forms in New Melodrama -- 5. The Spiritual Intimacies of The Red Hand Files: How Long Will I Be Alone? -- 6. Video Authenticity and Epistolary Self- Expression in Letter to America (Kira Muratova, 1999) -- 7. Epistolary Affect and Romance Scams: Letter from an Unknown Woman -- 8. Delivering Posthumous Messages : Katherine Mansfield and Letters in the Literary Biopic Leave All Fair (John Reid, 1985) -- 9. The Interactive Letter : Co-Authorship and Interactive Media in Emily Short’s First Draft of the Revolution -- 10. Epistolary Distance and Reciprocity in José Luis Guerín and Jonas Mekas’s Filmed Correspondences -- 11. Instagram and the Diary : The Case of Amalia Ulman’s Excellences & Perfections (2014) -- 12. Civil War Epistolary and the Hollywood War Film -- 13. Epistolarity and Decolonial Aesthetics in Carola Grahn’s Look Who’s Talking (2016) -- 14. Epistolary Relays in Fatih Akin’s Auf der anderen Seite (On the Other Side/ On the Edge of Heaven) (2007) -- Index

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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