| Description |
1 online resource (280 pages) |
| Series |
Film Culture in Transition |
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Film culture in transition.
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| Contents |
Doing (audio-visual) things with words - from epistolary intent to epistolary entanglements : an introduction / Teri Higgins and Catherine Fowler -- 1. Performance and power : the letter as an expression of masculinity in Game of Thrones / Louise Coopey -- 2. My dearest little girl, I just got your letter and I hope that you will continue to write to me often', epistolary listening in News from Home (Chantal Akerman, 1976) / Catherine Fowler -- 3. Dead letters : epistolary hauntology and the speed of light in Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas, 2016) / Shiamin Kwa -- 4. Attention to detail : epistolary forms in New Melodrama / Teri Higgins -- 5 The spiritual intimacies of The Red Hand Files : how long will I be alone? / Sean Redmond -- 6. Video authenticity and epistolary self-expression in Letter to America (Kira Muratova, 1999) / David Molina -- 7. Epistolary affect and romance scams : letter from an unknown woman / Hito Steyerl -- . 8. Delivering posthumous messages : Katherine Mansfield and letters in the literary biopic Leave All Fair (John Reid, 1983) / Rochelle Simmons -- 9. The interactive letter : co-authorship and interactive media in Emily Short's First Draft of the Revolution / Jenna Ng -- 10. Epistolary distance and reciprocity in Još Luis Guer̕n and Jonas Mekas' filmed correspondences / Emre Çaǧlayan -- 11. Instagram and the diary : the case of Amalia Ulman's Excellences & Perfections (2014) / Susan Best -- 12. Civil War epistolary and the Hollywood war film / John Trafton -- 13. Epistolarity and decolonial aesthetics in Carola Grahn's Look Who's Talking (2016) / Christine Sprengler -- 14. Epistolary relays in Fatih Akin's Auf der anderen Seite/On the Edge of Heaven (2007) / Sunka Simon |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Letters in motion pictures.
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Communication in motion pictures.
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Communication in mass media.
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Expression (Philosophy)
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Communication in mass media
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Communication in motion pictures
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Expression (Philosophy)
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Letters in motion pictures
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Higgins, Teri, editor
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Fowler, Catherine, 1969- editor
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University of Otago. Division of Humanities, funder.
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| ISBN |
9048555116 |
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9789048555116 |
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