Deep Mediations: Thinking Space in Cinema and Digital Cultures
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Deep Mediations: Thinking Space in Cinema and Digital Cultures
By (Author) Karen Redrobe
Edited by Jeff Scheible
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
18th May 2021
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Media studies
791.4301
Physical Properties
Paperback
440
Width 140mm, Height 216mm, Spine 51mm
Description
The preoccupation with depth and its relevance to cinema and media studies
For decades the concept of depth has been central to critical thinking in numerous humanities-based disciplines, legitimizing certain modes of inquiry over others. Deep Mediations examines why and how this is, as scholars today navigate the legacy of depth models of thought and vision, particularly in light of the surface turn and as these models impinge on the realms of cinema and media studies.
The collections eighteen essays seek to understand the decisive but evolving fixation on depth by considering the terms use across a range of conversations as well as its status in relation to critical methodologies and the current mediascape. Engaging contemporary debates about new computing technologies, the environment, history, identity, affect, audio/visual culture, and the limits and politics of human perception, Deep Mediations is a timely interrogation of depths ongoing importance within the humanities.
Contributors: Laurel Ahnert; Taylor Arnold, U of Richmond; Erika Balsom, Kings College London; Brooke Belisle, Stony Brook University; Jinhee Choi, Kings College London; Jennifer Fay, Vanderbilt U; Lisa Han, UC Santa Barbara; Jean Ma, Stanford U; Shaka McGlotten, Purchase College-SUNY; Susanna Paasonen, U of Turku, Finland; Jussi Parikka, U of Southampton; Alessandra Raengo, Georgia State U; Pooja Rangan, Amherst College; Katherine Rochester, VIA Art Fund in Boston; Karl Schoonover, University of Warwick (UK); Jordan Schonig, Michigan State U; John Paul Stadler, North Carolina State U; Nicole Starosielski, New York U; Lauren Tilton, U of Richmond.
Reviews
"A timely collection of critical essays that illuminates the aesthetic constitution and political deployment of depth in historical and contemporary media formations."Critical Inquiry
Author Bio
Karen Redrobe is Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Professor of Cinema and Modern Media at University of Pennsylvania.
Jeff Scheible is lecturer of film studies at Kings College London. He is author of Digital Shift: The Cultural Logic of Punctuation (Minnesota, 2015).
