Constructions of Media Authorship

Investigating Aesthetic Practices from Early Modernity to the Digital Age
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-11-065507-0
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, 268 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 520 g

The author is dead, long live the author! This paradox has shaped discussions on authorship since at least the 1960s, when the dominant notion of the individual author-genius was first critically questioned. The ongoing discussion has mainly focused on literature and the arts, but has ignored nearly any artistic practice beyond these two fields. “Constructions of Media Authorship” aims to fill this gap: the volume’s interdisciplinary contributions reflect historical and current artistic practices within various media and attempt to grasp them from different perspectives.
The first part sheds a new light on different artistic and design practices and questions the still dominant view on the individual identifiable author. The second part discusses creative practices in literature, emphasizing the interrelation of aesthetic discourses and media practices. The third part investigates authoring in audiovisual media, especially film and TV, while the final part turns to electronic and digital media and their collective creativity and hybrid mediality. The volume is also an attempt to develop new methodological approaches, focusing on the interplay between various human and non-human actors in different media constellations.

Zielgruppe

Scholars of media and communication studies, cultural studies, ar

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heibach, Christiane

Krewani, Angela

Schütze, Irene

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Medientheorie, Medienanalyse
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Mediengeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Christiane Heibach, Regensburg University, Regensburg, Germany; Angela Krewani, Marburg University, Marburg, Germany; Irene Schütze, Art Academy at the University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany.