Media Cultures

Edited by William Uricchio and Susanne Kinnebrock.

Set against the backdrop of 9/11 and the war in Iraq, and positioned in the midst of a fast-changing media infrastructure, 17 essays reflect upon the complicated interplay of media and culture at a particularly intense historical juncture. Written by prominent media specialists and cultural critics from Germany and North America, the essays use a case-study approach to provide a framework for comparative analysis across media forms, historical moments, and cultural contexts. Interdisciplinary in approach, the chapters draw on media studies, literary and cultural studies, history, audience analysis, and aesthetics for their findings. Together, they raise far-reaching questions about the nature of representation and reality at a moment when global flows of information, enhanced by new media technologies, threaten to outpace our traditional strategies for comprehension and control. - VIII,298 Seiten mit 24 Abb. und 6 Tab., gebunden (Publications of the Bavarian American Academy; Vol. 5/Universitätsverlag Winter 2006) leichte Lagerspuren/minor shelfwear