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Amsterdam Universit y Press / S P R I N G 2018F I L M , M E D I A & CO M M U N I C AT I O N

M E D I A A N D CO M M U N I C AT I O N S T U D I E S1 From Media Hype to Twitter Storm1 Productive Fandom2 Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling2 Guerrilla Networks3 The Datafied Society3 Heritage and Tourism4 Kurt Baschwitz4 Nazism and Neo-Nazism in Film and Media

F I L M S T U D I E S5 The Colour Fantastic5 Images of Dutchness 6 Mysteries of Cinema6 The Webcam as an Emerging Cinematic Medium7 Late Bresson and the Visual Arts7 Conversations with Christian Metz8 Faust on the Early Screen8 Understanding Culture

S A L E S A N D O R D E R I N F O R M AT I O N

Cover illustration:

Zachariah Scott

Catalogue Design: Remco Mulckhuyse, Coordesign

M E D I A & CO M M U N I C AT I O N 1

Edited by Peter Vasterman

From Media Hype to Twitter StormNews Explosions and Their Impact on Issues, Crises and Public Opinion

This anthology offers the f irst comprehensive overview of media hype, a phenomenon often dismissed as ephemeral and unimportant. Despite that reputation, media storms actually do play an important role in political issues, scandals, and crises, sometimes creating an important shift in public opinion over the course of only a few hours. This book provides an overview of theoretical, conceptual, and methodological issues related to media hype through close explorations of case studies from around the world.

Peter Vasterman is media sociologist and assistant professor emeritus of media and journalism in the Department of Media Studies of the University of Amsterdam.

February 2018

ISBN 9789462982178

e-ISBN 9789048532100

HB, 156 x 234 mm

320 pages, 2 colour illustrations, 21 line art

€105.00 / £90.00

By Nicolle Lamerichs

Productive FandomIntermediality and Affective Reception in Fan Cultures

To dismantle negative stereotypes of fans, this book offers a media ethnography of the digital culture, conventions, and urban spaces associated with fandoms, arguing that fandom is an area of productive, creative, and subversive value. By examining the fandoms of Sherlock, Glee, Firefly, and other popular television-based franchises, the author appeals to fans and scholars alike in her empirically grounded methodology and insightful analysis of production hierarchies, gender, sexuality, play, and affect.

Nicolle Lamerichs has a PhD in fan studies and is affiliated with HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht.

TRANSMEDIA

July 2018

ISBN 9789089649386

e-ISBN 9789048528318

HB, 156 x 234 mm

235 pages, 6 b/w illustrations

€95.00 / £85.00

T R A N S M E D I A

Transmedia prov ides a p lat form for cutt ing- edge research in the

f ie ld of media s tudies , wi th a s t rong focus on the impac t of

d igi t i sat ion , g lobal i sat ion , and fan cul ture .

Peter Vasterman (ed.)

From M

edia Hype to Tw

itter Storm

From Media Hype to Twitter Storm


News Explosions and Their Impact on Issues, Crises and Public Opinion

2 M E D I A & CO M M U N I C AT I O N

RECURSIONS

January 2018

ISBN 9789089648891

e-ISBN 9789048527533

HB, 156 x 234 mm


€95.00 / £85.00

TRANSMEDIA

September 2017

ISBN 9789462986213

e-ISBN 9789048537433

PB, 156 x 234 mm


€39.95 / £32.50

Edited by Dan Hassler-Forest and Sean Guynes

Star Wars and the History of Transmedia StorytellingThis collection offers vital new conceptual and methodological tools for understanding the ways in which transmedia storytelling and the industrial logic of media franchising have developed in concert over the past four decades. In emphasising that Star Wars is both a media franchise and a transmedia story-world, the essays in this book emphasise the complex negotiations between culture and

industry that have shaped not only the brand and its many narrative threads, but also the larger organisation of the transnational media landscape.

Dan Hassler-Forest is an assistant professor at the University of Utrecht. Sean Guynes is a PhD student in the Department of English at Michigan State University.

By Michael Goddard

Guerrilla NetworksAn Anarchaeology of 1970s Radical Media Ecologies

The radical youth movements of the 1960s and ’70s gave rise to both militant political groups—ranging from urban guerrilla groups to autonomist counterculture—and radical media, including radio, music, f ilm, video, and television. This book is concerned with both of those tendencies considered as bifurcations of radical media ecologies in the 1970s. While some of the forms of media creativity and invention mapped here, such as militant f ilm and video, pirate radio and guerrilla television, f it within conventional def initions of media, others, such as urban guerrilla groups, do not. Nevertheless what was at stake in all these

ventures was the use of available means of expression in order to produce transformative effects, and they were all in different ways responding to ideas and practices of guerrilla struggle and specif ically of guerrilla media. This book examines these radical media ecologies as guerrilla networks, emphasising the proximity and inseparability of radical media and political practices.

Michael Goddard is a reader in film, television and the moving image at the University of Westminster.

T R A N S M E D I A

Transmedia prov ides a p lat form for cutt ing- edge research in the f ie ld

of media s tudies , wi th a s t rong focus on the impac t of d igi t i sat ion ,

g lobal i sat ion , and fan cul ture .

R E C U R S I O N S

Recurs ions prov ides a p lat form for cutt ing- edge research in the f ie ld of

media cul ture s tudies with a focus on the cul tura l impac t of media

technology and the mater ia l i t ies of communicat ion .

Ams terdamUniver s i t yPress

GuerrillaNetworks

An Anarchaeology

of 1970s

Radical Media Ecologies

MICHAEL GODDARD

T R A N S M E D I A3

Guynes and H

assler-Forest (eds)Star W

ars and the History

of Transmedia Storytelling

STAR WARS and the History of Transmedia Storytelling

Edited by Sean Guynes and Dan Hassler-Forest

M E D I A & CO M M U N I C AT I O N 3

Edited by Mirko Tobias Schäfer and Karin van Es

The Datafied SocietyStudying Culture through Data

The ability to gather data that can be crunched by machines is valuable for studying society. The new methods needed to work it require new skills and new ways of thinking about best research practices. This book reflects on the role and useful-ness of big data, challenging overly optimistic expectations about what it can reveal, introducing practices and methods for its analysis and visualisation, and raising important political and ethical questions regarding its collection, handling, and presentation.

Mirko Tobias Schäfer is assistant professor for new media and digital culture at the University of Utrecht. Karin van Es is assistant lecturer at the University of Utrecht.

August 2017

ISBN 9789462987173

e-ISBN 9789048531011

PB, 156 x 234 mm

268 pages, 20 colour illustrations,

9 b/w illustrations, 2 line art

€24.95 / £20.50

Edited by Linde Egberts and Maria D. Alvarez

Heritage and TourismPlaces, Imageries and the Digital Age

Heritage and tourism mutually reinforce each other, with the presentation of heritage at physical sites mirrored by the ways heritage is presented on the internet. This interdiscipli-nary book uses humanities and social sciences to analyse the ways that heritage is branded and commodif ied, how stakeholders organise place brands, and how digital strategies shape how visitors appreciate heritage sites. The book covers a wide geographic diversity, offering the reader the chance to f ind cross-cutting themes and area-specif ic features of the f ield.

Linde Egberts is a postdoctoral researcher of heritage studies at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Maria D. Alvarez is professor of tourism marketing at Boğaziçi University.

LANDSCAPE AND HERITAGE STUDIES

February 2018

ISBN 9789462985353

e-ISBN 9789048536443

HB, 156 x 234 mm


€85.00 / £75.00

L A N D S C A P E A N D H E R I TAG E S T U D I E S

Landscape and Heritage Studies (LHS) is about the histor y, her itage and

transformation of the natural and cultural landscapes and built environment.

The ser ies aims at the promotion of new directions as well as the rediscover y

and exploration of lost tracks in landscape and heritage research.

TheDatafied SocietyStudying Culture through Data

Edited byMirko Tobias Schäfer

and Karin van Es

1

Simpson (ed.)

Tourist Utopias

Heritage and TourismPlaces, Imageries and the Digital AgeEdited by Linde Egberts and Maria D. Alvarez

L A N D S C A P E A N D H E R I T A G E S T U D I E S

Now in Paperback!

4 M E D I A & CO M M U N I C AT I O N

By Jaap van Ginneken

Kurt BaschwitzA Pioneer of Communication Studies and Social Psychology

In this accessible, unique study of a forgotten but noteworthy f igure, the author tells the story of the life of Kurt Baschwitz (1886–1968), a scholar who f led from the Nazis. He wrote six books, never translated into English, on four related themes: the press, propaganda, politics, and persecu-tion. Baschwitz independently developed concepts that are now seen as key to communication science and social psychology, and the author places Baschwitz’s ideas in the wider context of his dramatic life and times.

Jaap van Ginneken has a PhD in the history of political and mass psychology.

"This book presents the extraordinary life and scientific works of the brilliant European

scientist Kurt Baschwitz, a founding father of the study of mass psychology, collective behavior sociology and media studies in Europe. This book will eventually help to

rediscover the originality of the great contributions of this pioneering scholar.”

—Willem Koops, Utrecht University

December 2017

ISBN 9789462986046

e-ISBN 9789048537280

HB, 156 x 234 mm

360 pages, 18 b/w illustrations, 3 line art

€105.00 / £90.00

By Jason Lee

Nazism and Neo-Nazism in Film and MediaThis timely book takes an original transnational approach to the theme of Nazism and neo-Nazism in f ilm, media, and popular culture, with examples drawn from mainland Europe, the UK, North and Latin America, Asia, and beyond. This approach f its with the established dominance of global multimedia formats, and will be useful for students, scholars, and research-ers in all forms of f ilm and media. Along with the essential need to examine current trends in Nazism and neo-Nazism in contemporary media globally, what makes this book even more necessary is that it engages with debates that go to the very heart of our understanding of knowledge: history, memory, meaning, and truth.

Jason Lee is professor and head of Leicester Media School at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.

May 2018

ISBN 9789089649362

e-ISBN 9789048528295

HB, 156 x 234 mm


€95.00 / £85.00H

ellemans

Denken over cultuur

Babette Hellemans

Kurt Baschwitz

A Pioneer of Communication Studies and Social Psychology

Jaap van Ginneken

JASON LEE

Nazism and Neo-Nazism in

Film and Media

F I L M S T U D I E S 5

Edited by Giovanna Fossati, Victoria Jackson, Bregt Lameris, Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi, Sarah Street, and Josh Yumibe

The Colour FantasticChromatic Worlds of Silent Cinema

Sparked by a groundbreaking Amsterdam workshop titled “Disorderly Order: Colours in Silent Film,” scholarly and archival interest in colour as a crucial aspect of f ilm form, technology and aesthetics has enjoyed a resurgence in the past twenty years. In the spirit of the workshop, this anthology brings together international experts to explore a diverse range of themes that they hope will inspire the next twenty years of research on colour in silent f ilm. Taking an interdiscipli-nary approach, the book explores archival restoration, colour f ilm technology, colour

theory, and experimental f ilm alongside beautifully saturated images of silent cinema.

Giovanna Fossati is professor of film heritage at the University of Amsterdam and chief curator at EYE Filmmuseum. Victoria Jackson is a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Bristol. Bregt Lameris is a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Zürich. Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi is curator of silent films at EYE Filmmuseum. Sarah Street is professor of film at the University of Bristol. Joshua Yumibe is associate professor at Michigan State University.

FRAMING FILM

February 2018

ISBN 9789462983014

e-ISBN 9789048532988

PB, 156 x 234 mm


29 b/w illustrations

€39.95 / £32.50

By Sarah Dellmann

Images of DutchnessPopular Visual Culture, Early Cinema and the Emergence of a National Cliché

Why do early f ilms present the Netherlands as a country full of canals and windmills, where people wear traditional costumes and wooden shoes, while industries and modern urban life are all but absent? Where do such visual clichés come from? This study investigates the roots of this imagery in popular visual media ranging from magazines to tourist brochures, from anthropological treatises to advertising trade cards, stereoscopic photographs, picture postcards, magic lantern slide sets and f ilms of

early cinema. The book provides an in-depth study of this rich and fascinating corpus of popular visual media that has not been studied before, and the discourses that these images were meant to illustrate. This intermedial approach offers new insights into the emergence of national clichés and the study of stereotypical thinking.

Sarah Dellmann is a researcher in the Department for Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University.

FRAMING FILM

June 2018

ISBN 9789462983007

e-ISBN 9789048532971

HB, 156 x 234 mm


80 b/w illustrations

€105.00 / £90.00

F R A M I N G F I L M

This ser ies dedicated to theoret ica l and analyt ica l s tudies in

restorat ion , co l lec t ion , a rchiva l , and exhib i t ion prac t ices in l ine with

the ex is t ing archive of EYE Fi lmmuseum.

Giovanna Fossati is the Chief Curator at EYE Film-museum and Professor Film Heritage and Digital Film Culture at the University of Amsterdam.Annie van den Oever is the Director of the Film Archive at the University of Groningen and Extraordinary Professor Film and Visual Media at the University of the Free State, South Africa.

With contributions by Susan Aasman, Rommy Albers, Soeluh van den Berg, Martine Beugnet, Sonia Campanini, Ian Christie, Amanda du Preez, Guy Edmonds, Julian Hanich, Gert Jan Harkema, Jan Holmberg, Marek Jancovic, Frank Kessler, Miklós Kiss, Martin Koerber, Sabine Lenk, Eef Masson, Julia Noordegraaf, Annelies van Noortwijk, Roger Odin, Ari Purnama, Leenke Ripmeester, Céline Scemama, Alexandra Schneider, Tom Slootweg, Caylin Smith, Benoît Turquety, Barbara Turquier, William Uricchio, Nanna Verhoeff, Steven Willemsen, and Joshua Yumibe.

Imagine opening the gates to a vault full of media apparatuses and letting loose thirty-two international media scholars and profes-sionals on its heterogeneous content... Exposing the Film Apparatus collects the results of such an experiment.This book addresses the keen awareness of the prominence of media technologies in our culture in the last two centuries, while also showing how such an awareness is impacting the curatorial consciousness of those working in film archives, technology, and media museums today. Combining a variety of approaches with insightful perspectives of professionals working on a wide range of film technology-related issues, Exposing the Film Apparatus reveals the richness, diversity, and relevance of the topic for archivists, curators, projectionists, theorists, film and media historians, media artists, educationists and film students today.

If dreams come true! The long desired collaboration between film archivists and film scholars has never been as fully realized as in this work, which is, itself, a genuine “research laboratory.” Adopting an approach that constantly combines fundamental and applied research, the “materiality of the medium” is studied here in an entirely novel way. Starting with the digital turn, the essential problems of technique and technology have (finally!) returned to academic zeitgeist.

ANDRÉ GAUDREAULT

CANADA RESEARCH CHAIR IN CINEMA AND MEDIA STUDIES, UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL

This excellent collection fizzes with new approaches to understanding the apparatuses of cinema. These machines once gave life to images; now it must be our mission to give life back to these machines.

JOHN ELLIS

PROFESSOR OF MEDIA ARTS, ROYAL HOLLOWAY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

EXPOSING THE FILM APPARATUS

FRAMINGFILM

FOSSATI & VAN DEN OEVER (EDS.)EXPOSING THE FILM APPARATUS

9 789089 647184AUP.nl

Chromatic Worlds of Silent Cinema

GIOVANNA FOSSATI, VICTORIA JACKSON, BREGT LAMERIS, ELIF RONGEN-KAYNAKÇI, SARAH STREET, JOSHUA YUMIBE

THE COLOUR FANTASTIC

EYE FILMMUSEUM

FRAMINGFILM





ANDRÉ GAUDREAULT



JOHN ELLIS



FRAMINGFILM


9 789089 647184AUP.nl

Popular Visual Culture, Early Cinema and the Emergence of a National Cliché

SARAH DELLMAN

IMAGES OF DUTCHNESS

EYE FILMMUSEUM

FRAMINGFILM

6 F I L M S T U D I E S

By Adrian Martin

Mysteries of CinemaReflections on Film Theory, History and Culture 1982-2016

The essays of distinguished f ilm critic Adrian Martin have long been diff icult to access, so this anthology, which collects his work in one volume, will be welcomed throughout f ilm studies. He offers in-depth analysis of many genres of f ilms while providing a broad understanding of the history of cinema and the history of f ilm criticism and culture. These vibrant, highly personal essays balance breadth across cinema theory with almost encyclopedic

detail, ranging between aesthetics, cinephilia, f ilm genre, criticism, philoso-phy, and cultural politics.

Adrian Martin is an associate professor at Monash University in Australia.

FILM CULTURE IN TRANSITION

June 2018

ISBN 9789462986831

e-ISBN 9789048538201

HB, 156 x 234 mm

378 pages

€105.00 / £90.00

By Paula Albuquerque

The Webcam as an Emerging Cinematic MediumAll the world’s a stage—literally so, given the ubiquitous presence of webcams record-ing daily life in cities. This footage, allegedly documentary, recreates cities as cinematic environments as people interact with the multitudes of cameras and screens around them. Paula Albuquerque’s original research and experimental f ilms, presented in this groundbreaking book, expose f ictionalising elements in archival webcams and explore video surveillance as an urban condition that influences both perceptions of the past and visions of the future.

Paula Albuquerque is a scholar and an artist who teaches at the University of Amsterdam and the Gerrit Rietveld Academy.


June 2018

ISBN 9789462985582

e-ISBN 9789048536733

HB, 156 x 234 mm


€95.00 / £85.00

F I L M C U LT U R E I N T R A N S I T I O N

This ser ies i s committed to a p lura l i t y of approaches and to

in i t ia t ing informed debate on the new technologies , the i r h is tor ies

and the new forms of c reat iv i t y t ransforming cul tura l l i fe .

By Raymond Watkins

Late Bresson and the Visual ArtsCinema, Painting and Avant-Garde Experiment

Critics have largely neglected the colour f ilms of French f ilm director Robert Bresson (1901–99). To correct that oversight, this study presents a revised and revitalised Bresson, comparing his style to innovations in abstract painting after World War II, exploring his aff inities with such avant-garde traditions as surrealism, constructivism, and minimalism, and illustrating how his embodied style leads to a complex form of intermediality. Through that analysis, Raymond Watkins shows clearly

that Bresson still has a good deal to teach us about cinema’s distinctive ability to draw on painting, photography, sculpture, and the plastic arts in general.

Raymond Watkins is assistant professor of teaching at the Pennsylvania State University. He previously taught at Case Western Reserve University, Oberlin College, and Colgate University.

Edited by Warren Buckland and Daniel Fairfax

Conversations with Christian MetzSelected Interviews on Film Theory (1970-1991)

This book translates a series of colloquial but in-depth interviews with a seminal f ilm theorist, Christian Metz, in which he explains and expands on his groundbreaking theories. These interviews have never before been available in English, and they serve as an accessible introduction to f ilm theory from one of its pioneers. The interviewers act as curious readers as they question Metz, who discusses his key tenets and the social landscape of his time, and offers unusual insights into his work.

Warren Buckland is reader in film studies at Oxford Brookes University. Daniel Fairfax is a doctoral candidate in Film Studies and Compara-tive Literature at Yale University.

F I L M C U LT U R E I N T R A N S I T I O N

This ser ies i s committed to a p lura l i t y of approaches and to in i t ia t ing

informed debate on the new technologies , the i r h is tor ies and the new

forms of c reat iv i t y t ransforming cul tura l l i fe .

F I L M T H E O R Y I N M E D I A H I S TO R Y

This ser ies explores the epistemologica l and theoret ica l foundat ions of

the s tudy of f i lm through tex ts by c lass ica l authors as wel l as anthologies

and monographs on k ey i ssues and developments in f i lm theor y.

AUP.nl

FILM THEORY IN MEDIA HISTORY

CONVERSATIONS WITH CHRISTIAN METZSELECTED INTERVIEWS ON FILM THEORY

(1970–1991)

EDITED BY WARREN BUCKLAND AND DANIEL FAIRFAX


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CON

VERSATIO

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RISTIAN M

ETZED

ITED BY W

ARREN BU

CKLAND

AN

D DAN

IEL FAIRFAX

From 1968 to 1991 the acclaimed film

theorist Christian Metz wrote several

remarkable books on film theory:

Essais sur la signification au cinéma, tome 1 et 2; Langage et cinéma; Le sig-nifiant imaginaire; and L’Enonciation impersonnelle. These books set the

agenda of academic film studies

during its formative period. Metz’s

ideas were taken up, digested, refined,

reinterpreted, criticized and some times

dismissed, but rarely ignored.

This volume collects and translates

into English for the first time a series

of interviews with Metz, who offers

readable summaries, elaborations, and

explanations of his sometimes complex

and demanding theories of film. He

speaks informally of the most funda

mental concepts that constitute the

heart of film theory as an academic

discipline – concepts borrowed from

linguistics, semiotics, rhetoric, nar

ratology, and psychoanalysis.

Within the colloquial language of the

interview, we witness Metz’s initial

formation and development of his film

theory. The interviewers act as curious

readers who pose probing questions

to Metz about his books, and seek

clarification and elaboration of his key

concepts. We also discover the contents

of his unpublished manuscript on jokes,

his relation to Roland Barthes, and the

social networks operative in the French

intellectual community during the

1970s and 1980s.

WARREN BUCKLAND is Reader in Film

Studies at Oxford Brookes University.

DANIEL FAIRFAX is a doctoral candidate

in Film Studies and Comparative

Literature at Yale University.

F I L M S T U D I E S 7

FILMCULTURECULTUREFILM

IN TRANSITION

Cinema, Painting and Avant-Garde Experiment

raymond watkins

Late Bressonand the

Visual Arts


January 2018

ISBN 9789462983649

e-ISBN 9789048533992

HB, 156 x 234 mm

298 pages, 8 colour illustrations, 62

b/w illustrations

€95.00 / £85.00


September 2017

ISBN 9789089648259

e-ISBN 9789048526734

PB, 156 x 234 mm

310 pages

€39.95 / £32.50

8 F I L M S T U D I E S

By Lorna Fitzsimmons

Faust on the Early Screen

The legend of the magician Faust’s pact with the devil has fascinated screen-media makers since the earliest years of experi-mentation with the new medium of motion pictures. Faust on the Early Screen offers a new path for early f ilm history. Engaging with neglected Faustian adaptations for the early screen and reinterpreting the more familiar ones, it traces the increasing naturalisation of the legend’s key meta-phors within an in-depth comparative analysis of the f ilms’ intertextual relation-ships (including music, magic lanterns, magic shows, féeries, and literature). By setting the f ilms in transtextual and cultural contexts, this book provides insight into the f iguration of identity in the early cinema and modern culture.

Lorna Fitzsimmons is professor of humanities at California State University.

June 2018

ISBN 9789462986848

e-ISBN 9789048538218

HB, 156 x 234 mm

288 pages

€85.00 / £75.00

By Babette Hellemans

Understanding CultureA Handbook for Students in the Humanities

This textbook provides an innovative introduction to the study of culture from an international perspective. It examines culture as a dynamic term with meanings that change through time, offering the f irst long-term analysis of the relationship between culture and nature. It discusses various theories of culture present in the disciplines of history, literature, art, and popular culture. Due to this breadth and coherence, the book can be f lexibly and relevantly applied across many topics and could be used in a wide range of courses.

Babette Hellemans teaches cultural history and medieval history at the University of Groningen.

“This much-needed and very welcome textbook excels at the challenging task of

conveying the intricacies of theory in a crisp and accessible manner to the reader.

Abundant in illuminating examples, it is a guide to culture in the best sense of the

world: it provides a lasting inspiration for reflection (well after it has been read).”

— Monika Baár, Professor in Cultural History and the History of Political Thought at the

University of Leiden, the Netherlands

August 2017

ISBN 9789089649911

e-ISBN 9789048530090

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€24.95 / £28.50

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From M

edia Hype to Tw

itter Storm

From Media Hype to Twitter Storm


News Explosions and Their Impact on Issues, Crises and Public Opinion

Ams terdamUniver si t yPress

GuerrillaNetworks

An Anarchaeology

of 1970s

Radical Media Ecologies

MICHAEL GODDARD

T R A N S M E D I A3

Guynes and H

assler-Forest (eds)Star W

ars and the History

of Transmedia Storytelling

STAR WARS and the History of Transmedia Storytelling

Edited by Sean Guynes and Dan Hassler-Forest

TheDatafied SocietyStudying Culture through Data

Edited byMirko Tobias Schäfer

and Karin van Es

1

Simpson (ed.)

Tourist Utopias

Heritage and TourismPlaces, Imageries and the Digital AgeEdited by Linde Egberts and Maria D. Alvarez

L A N D S C A P E A N D H E R I T A G E S T U D I E S

Hellem

ansD

enken over cultuur

Babette Hellemans

Kurt Baschwitz

A Pioneer of Communication Studies and Social Psychology

Jaap van Ginneken JASON LEE

Nazism and Neo-Nazism in

Film and Media





ANDRÉ GAUDREAULT



JOHN ELLIS



FRAMINGFILM


9 789089 647184AUP.nl

Popular Visual Culture, Early Cinema and the Emergence of a National Cliché

SARAH DELLMAN

IMAGES OF DUTCHNESS

EYE FILMMUSEUM

FRAMINGFILM





ANDRÉ GAUDREAULT



JOHN ELLIS



FRAMINGFILM


9 789089 647184AUP.nl

Chromatic Worlds of Silent Cinema

GIOVANNA FOSSATI, VICTORIA JACKSON, BREGT LAMERIS, ELIF RONGEN-KAYNAKÇI, SARAH STREET, JOSHUA YUMIBE

THE COLOUR FANTASTIC

EYE FILMMUSEUM

FRAMINGFILM

AUP.nl


CONVERSATIONS WITH CHRISTIAN METZSELECTED INTERVIEWS ON FILM THEORY

(1970–1991)

EDITED BY WARREN BUCKLAND AND DANIEL FAIRFAX


I S B N 978-90-896-4825-9

9 7 8 9 0 8 9 6 4 8 2 5 9

CON

VERSATIO

NS W

ITH CH

RISTIAN M

ETZED

ITED BY W

ARREN BU

CKLAND

AN

D DAN

IEL FAIRFAX

From 1968 to 1991 the acclaimed film

theorist Christian Metz wrote several

remarkable books on film theory:

Essais sur la signification au cinéma, tome 1 et 2; Langage et cinéma; Le sig-nifiant imaginaire; and L’Enonciation impersonnelle. These books set the

agenda of academic film studies

during its formative period. Metz’s

ideas were taken up, digested, refined,

reinterpreted, criticized and some times

dismissed, but rarely ignored.

This volume collects and translates

into English for the first time a series

of interviews with Metz, who offers

readable summaries, elaborations, and

explanations of his sometimes complex

and demanding theories of film. He

speaks informally of the most funda

mental concepts that constitute the

heart of film theory as an academic

discipline – concepts borrowed from

linguistics, semiotics, rhetoric, nar

ratology, and psychoanalysis.

Within the colloquial language of the

interview, we witness Metz’s initial

formation and development of his film

theory. The interviewers act as curious

readers who pose probing questions

to Metz about his books, and seek

clarification and elaboration of his key

concepts. We also discover the contents

of his unpublished manuscript on jokes,

his relation to Roland Barthes, and the

social networks operative in the French

intellectual community during the

1970s and 1980s.

WARREN BUCKLAND is Reader in Film

Studies at Oxford Brookes University.

DANIEL FAIRFAX is a doctoral candidate

in Film Studies and Comparative

Literature at Yale University.

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