Travels in Intermediality: ReBlurring the Boundaries

286 Pages·2012·1.68 MB·English

by  Bernd Herzogenrath

travels in
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interfaces
StudieS in ViSual Culture
editorS Mark J. Williams and Adrian W. B. Randolph, Dartmouth College
This series, sponsored by Dartmouth College Press, develops and promotes the
study of visual culture from a variety of critical and methodological perspectives. Its impetus
derives from the increasing importance of visual signs in everyday life, and from the rapid
expansion of what are termed “new media.” The broad cultural and social dynamics atten-
dant to these developments present new challenges and opportunities across and within the
disciplines. These have resulted in a trans-disciplinary fascination with all things visual, from
“high” to “low,” and from esoteric to popular. This series brings together approaches to visual
culture—broadly conceived—that assess these dynamics critically and that break new ground
in understanding their effects and implications.
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Monica E. McTighe, Framed Spaces: Barbara Larson and Fae Brauer, eds.,
Photography and Memory in Contemporary The Art of Evolution: Darwin, Darwinisms,
Installation Art and Visual Culture
Alison Trope, Stardust Monuments: The Saving Jeffrey Middents, Writing National Cinema: Film
and Selling of Hollywood Journals and Film Culture in Peru
Nancy Anderson and Michael R. Dietrich, eds., Michael Golec, The Brillo Box Archive:
The Educated Eye: Visual Culture Aesthetics, Design, and Art
and Pedagogy in the Life Sciences Rob Kroes, Photographic Memories: Private
Shannon Clute and Richard L. Edwards, Pictures, Public Images, and American History
The Maltese Touch of Evil: Film Noir and Jonathan Beller, The Cinematic Mode of
Potential Criticism Production: Attention Economy and the
Steve F. Anderson, Technologies of History: Society of the Spectacle
Visual Media and the Eccentricity of the Past Ann B. Shteir and Bernard Lightman, eds.,
Dorothée Brill, Shock and the Senseless in Dada Figuring It Out: Science, Gender, and
and Fluxus Visual Culture
Janine Mileaf, Please Touch: Dada and Surrealist Anna Munster, Materializing New Media: Body,
Objects after the Readymade Image, and Interface in Information Aesthetics
J. Hoberman, Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Luc Pauwels, ed., Visual Cultures of
between Two Worlds, updated and expanded Science: Rethinking Representational
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Erina Duganne, The Self in Black and White: Communication
Race and Subjectivity in Postwar American Lisa Saltzman and Eric Rosenberg, eds.,
Photography Trauma and Visuality in Modernity

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Travels in intermedia[lity] : reblurring the boundaries /
edited by Bernd Herzogenrath. — 1st [ed.].
p. cm. —  (Interfaces: studies in visual culture)
Includes index.
ISBN 978-1-61168-259-5 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN 978-1-61168-260-1 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN 978-1-61168-261-8 (ebook)
1. Mass media and the arts. 2. Intermediality.
I. Herzogenrath, Bernd, 1964–
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contents
Acknowledgments ix
1
Travels in Intermedia[lity]: An Introduction 1
Bernd HerzogenratH
2
Four Models of Intermediality 15
JenS SCHröter
3
Intermediality in Media Philosophy 37
Katerina KrtiloVa
4
Realism and the Digital Image 46
W. J. t. MitCHell
5
Mother’s Little Nightmare: Photographic and Monstrous
Genealogies in David Lynch’s The Elephant Man 63
larS noWaK
6
Laughs: The Misappropriated Jewels,
or A Close Shave for the Prima Donna 81
MiCHel SerreS
7
Words and Images in the
Contemporary American Graphic Novel 92
Jan BaetenS
8
Music for the Jilted Generation:
Techno and|as Intermediality 111
Bernd HerzogenratH
9
Genuine Thought Is Inter(medial) 125
Julia Meier
10
Theater and Music: Intermedial Negotiations 137
iVana Brozić
11
The Novel as Hypertext:
Mapping Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day 152
Brian W. CHanen
12
Delightful Vistas: Revisiting the Hypertext Garden 169
MarK BernStein
13
Playing Research:
Methodological Approaches to Game Analysis 175
eSpen aarSetH
14
The Nonessentialist Essentialist Guide to Games 192
eriK CHaMpion
15
“Turn your Radio on”: Intermediality in the
Computer Game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas 211
gunter SüSS
16
Television as Network—Network as Television:
Experiments in Content and Community 226
Ben SaSSen
17
Social Media and the Future of Political Narrative 248
Jay daVid Bolter
Contributors 265
Index 271
acknowledgments
I would like to thank UPNE (in particular Richard Pult) for giving me
and us the opportunity to publish this book, and all those wonderful contributors
to this volume—it has been a pleasure! Special thanx go out to Benjamin Betka,
Sebastian Scherer, and Ann Klefstad!
The illustrations are reprinted with kind permission of the rights holders. In
case a formal permission is lacking, every effort was made to locate the rights
holders and secure permission.
I dedicate this book to Janna and Claudia, and to the memory of Frank.