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Rethinking media change : the aesthetics of transition
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- Creator
- edited by David Thorburn and Henry Jenkins ; associate editor, Brad Seawell
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2003]
- ©2003
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- Physical Details
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- x, 404 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780585480251, 9780262201469, 0262284944, 9780262284943, 0585480257, 0262201461
- OCLC
- ocm51210540, ocm53795831
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 1. Introduction: Toward an Aesthetics of Transition / David Thorburn and Henry Jenkins -- 2. Web of Paradox / David Thorburn -- 3. Historicizing Media in Transition / William Uricchio -- 4. Re-Newing Old Technologies: Astonishment, Second Nature, and the Uncanny in Technology from the Previous Turn-of-the-Century / Tom Gunning -- 5. How Users Define New Media: A History of the Amusement Phonograph / Lisa Gitelman -- 6. Books Are Dead, Long Live Books / Priscilla Coit Murphy -- 7. Help or Hindrance? The History of the Book and Electronic Media / Paul Erickson -- 8. Historical Perspectives on the Book and Information Technology / Gregory Crane -- 9. Potholes on the Information Superhighway: Congress as a Publisher in Nineteenth-Century America / Oz Frankel -- 10. Prophetic Peasants and Bourgeois Pamphleteers: The Camisards Represented in Print, 1685-1710 / Daniel Thorburn -- 11. Redefining the Home Screen: Technological Convergence as Trauma and Business Plan / William Boddy -- 12. Homer to Home Page: Designing Digital Books / William J. Mitchell -- 13. Reflections on Interactivity / Luis O. Arata -- 14. Forms of Future / Michael Joyce -- 15. Stitch Bitch: The Patchwork Girl / Shelley Jackson -- 16. "Let's Be Going": A Parent Reads GeekCereal / Peter Donaldson -- 17. Private Uses of Cyberspace: Women, Desire, and Fan Culture / Sharon Cumberland -- 18. Quentin Tarantino's Star Wars? Digital Cinema, Media Convergence, and Participatory Culture / Henry Jenkins -- 19. Immersion in the Virtual Ornament: Contemporary "Movie Ride" Films / Constance Balides -- 20. The Virtual Window / Anne Friedberg -- 21. Architecture of the Senses: Neo-Baroque Entertainment Spectales / Angela Ndalianis -- 22. Media Technology and Museum Display: A Century of Accommodation and Conflict / Alison Griffiths