Travels in Intermediality: ReBlurring the Boundaries [Paperback]

How do fiction, film, music, the Internet, and plastic, performative, and fine arts negotiate their shapes, formats, and contents in our contemporary world? More important, how does their interaction shape their techniques of representation, strategies of communication, and forms of reception? In the light of these ongoing interactive (and intermedial) processes, the fields of cultural studies and American studies are challenged to restructure and reorganize themselves. Less interested in the mere fact of traditional art forms meeting new media such as film, video, and digital arts, this collection concentrates on the ways in which the fundamental theoretical constructs of the media have forever changed. This book offers the latest in global intermedial studies, including discussions of digital photography, comics and graphic novels, performance art, techno, hypertext, and video games.

BERND HERZOGENRATH is a professor of American studies at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Acknowledgments Travels in Intermedia[lity]: An Introduction  Bernd Herzogenrath Four Models of Intermediality  Jens Schr?ter Intermediality in Media Philosophy  Katerina Krtilova Realism and the Digital Image  W. J. T. Mitchell Mothers Little Nightmare: Photographic and Monstrous Genealogies in David Lynchs The Elephant Man  Lars Nowak Laughs: The Misappropriated Jewels, or A Close Shave for the Prima Donna  Michel Serres Words and Images in the Contemporary American Graphic Novel  Jan Baetens Music for the Jilted Generation: Techno and | as Intermediality  Bernd Herzogenrath Genuine Thought Is Inter(medial)  Julia Meier Theater and Music: Intermedial Negotiations  Ivana Brozi The Novel as Hypertext: Mapping Thomas Pynchons Against the Day  Brian W. Chanen Delightful Vistas: Revisiting the Hypertext Garden  Mark Bernstein Playing Research: Methodological Approaches to Game Analysis  Espen Aarseth The Nonessential3*