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Soundscapes, sound clash

June 13, 2014/in Book Reviews, Reviews, Spring 2014_'Traces'

The ‘sonic turn’ in media and cultural studies of recent years has been manifested by a snowballing of publications in the last decade, consolidating sound’s status as a legitimate area of enquiry. The introduction to Sound Clash: Listening to American Studies (edited by Kara Keeling and Josh Kun; Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012) points […]

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Globalisation and television formats

June 13, 2014/in Book Reviews, Reviews, Spring 2014_'Traces'

At the time of writing this review John de Mol’s television production company Talpa has just started airing its latest reality show Utopia. As was the case with Big Brother in 1999 and The Voice of Holland in 2010, Dutch television merely functions as a test market and showroom for international buyers. Only Dutch viewers […]

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Shadow economies and digital disruption

May 16, 2014/in Book Reviews, Reviews, Spring 2014_'Traces'

Judging by the titles of Dina Iordanova’s and Stuart Cunningham’s edited volume Digital Disruption: Cinema Moves On-Line (St. Andrews: St. Andrews Film Studies, 2012) as well as Ramon Lobato’s Shadow Economies of Cinema: Mapping Informal Film Distribution (London: British Film Institute/Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), one could be forgiven for thinking that the movie theatre as we […]

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Moving data

November 9, 2013/in Autumn 2013_'Waste', Book Reviews

Mobile communication via mobile and wireless devices not only dominates social communication in terms of everyday media but has already replaced the paradigm of the computer as the medium of convergence for information and communication technologies. The development of smart phones has far-ranging impacts on the consumption of previously disconnected individual media and has laid […]

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Re-writing the history of the avant-garde

November 9, 2013/in Autumn 2013_'Waste', Book Reviews

The task of writing the history of the avant-garde cannot be considered an easy one. The term ‘avant-garde’ itself is in many ways problematic. Because of its intrinsic antagonism in regard to tradition, the concept of the avant-garde can appear as an attempt to break with the entire heritage of art history, or at least […]

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Colour Films in Britain

November 9, 2013/in Autumn 2013_'Waste', Book Reviews

At first glance, the image chosen for the cover of Sarah Street’s new book Colour Films in Britain: The Negotiation of Innovation 1900-55 (London: Palgrave/BFI Publishing, 2012) seems to be a somewhat unusual pick for a book about colour in cinema. It displays a discreetly-lit interior scene, an empty room without any people – more […]

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Branding Television

June 3, 2013/in Book Reviews, Reviews, Spring 2013_'Green'

Catherine Johnson’s book Branding Television (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2012) contributes to television studies by describing, explaining, and illustrating why and how television industries have turned to branding as a response to changes in technology. The book examines the television industries in the United States and the United Kingdom suggesting that, while the evolution […]

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Screen dynamics: Mapping the borders of cinema

June 3, 2013/in Book Reviews, Reviews, Spring 2013_'Green'

As the title of Gertrud Koch, Volker Pantenburg, and Simon Rothöhler’s edited collection Screen Dynamics: Mapping the Border of Cinema (Vienna: Austrian Film Museum, 2012) suggests, this volume provides an energetic, enthusiastic, and engaging journey through the particularities (and peculiarities) of cinema. Due attention is given to questions of cinematic spectatorship, the issue of cinema’s […]

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Subjectivity and ostrannenie: Key debates in European film studies

June 3, 2013/in Book Reviews, Reviews, Spring 2013_'Green'

Amsterdam University Press recently launched a book series titled The Key Debates: Mutations and Appropriations in European Film Studies. Directed by Ian Christie, Dominique Chateau, and Annie van den Oever, the series aims at focusing on the central issues animating the current theoretical debate within film studies (but with a special emphasis on its relation […]

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Cinema and experience: Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno

November 22, 2012/in Autumn 2012_'Tangibility', Book Reviews, Reviews

I first encountered the work of Miriam Hansen as a graduate student in the mid-1990s when her book Babel and Babylon was the talk of the (at that time still fairly modest) film studies town – even though it was sitting somewhat uneasily on the fence. In fact, it was this position beyond the canonical […]

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European nightmares: Horror cinema in Europe since 1945

November 22, 2012/in Autumn 2012_'Tangibility', Book Reviews, Reviews

Patricia Allmer, Emily Brick, and David Huxley’s edited collection European Nightmares: Horror Cinema in Europe Since 1945 (New York-Chichester: Columbia University Press/Wallflower Press, 2012) is a book with roots that go back to a conference organised by the editors at Manchester Metropolitan University in 2006.[1] As Allmer, Brick, and Huxley state in their introduction, horror […]

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A multiplied medium: Reviewing recent publications on television’s transitions

November 22, 2012/in Autumn 2012_'Tangibility', Book Reviews, Reviews

In recent research on academic knowledge production there are intimations that a certain fuzziness of the investigated object, even a somewhat vague set of questions, are not the worst starting points for scholarship. These points often lead to exciting insights. This might explain why, for some time now, various academic engagements with television have provoked […]

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The good, the beautiful and the sublime

November 22, 2012/in Autumn 2012_'Tangibility', Book Reviews, Reviews

No…don’t come to me! There is more allure / In waiting with sweet apprehension, fear. / Just while seeking out everything is pure; / It’s nicer when just foreboding is near.[1] – Desanka Maksimovic Since the books reviewed here discuss what citizens of Islamic lands might think or produce, or have thought or produced, would […]

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