Self-reference in the media / edited by Winfried Noth, Nina Bishara.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nöth, Winfried.

Bishara, Nina, 1977-

Series:

Approaches to applied semiotics ; . 6.

Approaches to applied semiotics ; . 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Semiotics.

Mass media.

Reference (Linguistics).

Metalanguage.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book investigates how the media have become self-referential or self-reflexive instead of mediating between the real or fictional worlds about which their messages pretend to be and between the audience that they wish to inform, counsel, or entertain. The concept of self-reference is viewed very broadly. Self-reflexivity, metatexts, metapictures, metamusic, metacommunication, as well as intertextual, and intermedial references are all conceived of as forms of self-reference, although to different degrees and levels. The contributions focus on the semiotic foundations of reference and self-reference, discuss the transdisciplinary context of self-reference in postmodern culture, and examine original studies from the worlds of print advertising, photography, film, television, computer games, media art, web art, and music. A wide range of different media products and topics are discussed including self-promotion on TV, the TV show Big Brother, the TV format "historytainment," media nostalgia, the documentation of documentation in documentary films, Marilyn Monroe in photographs, humor and paradox in animated films, metacommunication in computer games, metapictures, metafiction, metamusic, body art, and net art.

Contents:

Self-reference in the media / Winfried Noth

Distortion, fabrication, and disclosure in a self-referential culture / Vincent Colapietro

Modes of self-reference in advertising / Siegfried J. Schmidt

Metapictures and self-referential pictures / Winfried Noth

Absolut anonymous / Nina Bishara

The death of photography in self-reference / Winfried Noth

Marilyn / Kay Kirchmann

The self-reflexive screen / Gloria Withalm

Nostalgia of the media in the media / Andreas Bohn

Self-reference in animated films / Jan Siebert

On the use of self-disclosure as a mode of audiovisual reflexivity / Fernando Andacht

The old in the new / Joan K. Bleicher

There's no business without show-business / Karin Puhringer and Gabriele Siegert

Computer games / Lucia Santaella

Self-reference in computer games / Bo Kampmann Walther

Metacommunication in play and in (computer) games / Britta Neitzel

Self-reflexivity in computer games / Bernhard Rapp

Looking through the computer screen / Marie-Laure Ryan

The artist and her bodily self / Christina Ljungberg

Metafiction and metamusic / Werner Wolf.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612194573

9781282194571

1282194577

9783110198836

3110198835

OCLC:

476197311