Epistolary entanglements in film, media and the visual arts / edited by Teri Higgins and Catherine Fowler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Higgins, Teri, editor.

Fowler, Catherine, 1969- editor.

Series:

Film culture in transition.

Film culture in transition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Letters in motion pictures.

Communication in motion pictures.

Communication in mass media.

Expression (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2023.

Summary:

This collection departs from the observation that online forms of communication - the email, blog, text message, tweet - are actually haunted by old epistolary forms: the letter and the diary. By examining the omnipresence of writing across a variety of media, the collection adds the category of Epistolary Screens to genres of self-expression, both literary (letters, diaries, auto-biographies) and screenic (romance dramas, intercultural cinema, essay films, artists' videos and online media).

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Doing (Audio-Visual) Things with Words – From Epistolary Intent to Epistolary Entanglements: An Introduction

1. Performance and Power : The Letter as an Expression of Masculinity in Game of Thrones

2. ‘My dearest little girl, I just got your letter and I hope that you will continue to write to me often’

3. Dead Letters

4. Attention to Detail: Epistolary Forms in New Melodrama

5. The Spiritual Intimacies of The Red Hand Files: How Long Will I Be Alone?

6. Video Authenticity and Epistolary Self- Expression in Letter to America (Kira Muratova, 1999)

7. Epistolary Affect and Romance Scams: Letter from an Unknown Woman

8. Delivering Posthumous Messages : Katherine Mansfield and Letters in the Literary Biopic Leave All Fair (John Reid, 1985)

9. The Interactive Letter : Co-Authorship and Interactive Media in Emily Short’s First Draft of the Revolution

10. Epistolary Distance and Reciprocity in José Luis Guerín and Jonas Mekas’s Filmed Correspondences

11. Instagram and the Diary : The Case of Amalia Ulman’s Excellences & Perfections (2014)

12. Civil War Epistolary and the Hollywood War Film

13. Epistolarity and Decolonial Aesthetics in Carola Grahn’s Look Who’s Talking (2016)

14. Epistolary Relays in Fatih Akin’s Auf der anderen Seite (On the Other Side/ On the Edge of Heaven) (2007)

Index

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on July 6, 2023).

ISBN:

1-003-69494-2

90-485-5511-6

9781003694946

OCLC:

1356573789