Rethinking Media Change: The Aesthetics of Transition Thorburn David
Rethinking Media Change: The Aesthetics of Transition Thorburn David The essays in Rethinking Media Change center on a variety of media forms at moments of disruption and cultural transformation. The…
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Rethinking Media Change: The Aesthetics of Transition Thorburn David
The essays in Rethinking Media Change center on a variety of media forms at moments of disruption and cultural transformation. The book includes case studies of such earlier media as the book, the phonograph, early cinema, and television. The editors' introduction sketches an aesthetics of media transition--patterns of development and social dispersion that operate across eras, media forms, and cultures.
A final section probes aspects of visual culture in such environments as the evolving museum, movie spectaculars, and "the virtual window." The contributors reject apocalyptic scenarios of media revolution, demonstrating instead that media transition is always a mix of tradition and innovation, an accretive process in which emerging and established systems interact, shift, and collude with It also examines contemporary digital forms, exploring their promise and strangeness.
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