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Echographies of television : filmed interviews / Jacques Derrida and Bernard Stiegler ; translated by Jennifer Bajorek. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, [2002].
Call No: 62 WURAuthor: Derrida, Jacques ; Stiegler, Bernard ; Bajorek, Jennifer Source: UKPlace: Cambridge, UKPublisher: Polity PressPubDate: [2002]PhysDes: viii, 174 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmSubject: ADORNO, THEODOR W. ; DERRIDA, JACQUES ; FOUCAULT, MICHEL ; FASSBENDER, MICHAEL ; FASSBINDER, RAINER WERNER ; HERZOG, WERNER ; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED Summary: "In this new book, Jacques Derrida talks with Bernard Stiegler about the effect of teletechnologies on our philosophical and political moment. Improvising before a camera, the two philosophers are confronted by the very technologies they discuss and so are forced to address all the more directly the urgent questions that they raise. What does it mean to speak of the present in a situation of "live" recording? How can we respond, responsibly, to a question when we know that the so-called "natural" conditions of expression, discussion, reflection, and deliberation have been breached?" "As Derrida and Stiegler discuss the role of teletechnologies in modern society, the political implications of Derrida's thought become apparent. Drawing on recent events in Europe, Derrida and Stiegler explore the impact of television and the internet on our understanding of the state, its borders and citizenship. Their discussion examines the relationship between the juridical and the technical, and it shows how new technologies for manipulating and transmitting images have influenced our notions of democracy, history and the body. The book opens with a shorter interview with Derrida on the news media, and closes with a provocative essay by Stiegler on the epistemology of digital photography." "In Echographies of Television, Derrida and Stiegler open up questions that are of key social and political importance. Their book will be of great interest to all those already familiar with Derrida's work, as well as to students and scholars of philosophy, literature, sociology and media studies."--BOOK JACKET.Notes: Includes bibliographical references. - Translation from the French.ISBN: 074562037XContents: Artifactualities / Jacques Derrida -- Echographies of Television / Jacques Derrida and Bernard Stiegler -- 1. Right of Inspection -- 2. Artifactuality, Homohegemony -- 3. Acts of Memory: Topolitics and Teletechnology -- 4. Inheritances - and Rhythm -- 5. The "Cultural Exception": The States of the State, the Event -- 6. The Archive Market: Truth, Testimony, Evidence -- 7. Phonographies: Meaning - from Heritage to Horizon -- 8. Spectrographies -- 9. Vigilances of the Unconscious -- The Discrete Image / Bernard Stiegler.
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An introduction to theories of popular culture / Dominic Strinati London New York: Routledge, 1995.
Call No: 403 STRAuthor: Strinati, Dominic Place: London New YorkPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 1995PhysDes: xviii, 301 p. ; 23 cmSubject: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; SEMIOLOGY ; AUDIENCES ; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA ; BARTHES, ROLAND ; ADORNO, THEODOR W. Summary: Among the theories and ideas the book introduces are mass culture, the Frankfurt School and the culture industry, semiology and structuralism, Marxism, feminism, postmodernism and cultural populism. Strinati explains how theorists such as Adorno, Barthes, Althusser and Hebdige have grappled with the many forms of popular culture, from Jazz to the Americanization of British popular culture, from Hollywood cinema to popular television series, from teen magazines to the spy novel. Each chapter includes a guide to key texts for further reading and there is also a comprehensive bibliographyNotes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-289) and indexISBN: 0415124697; 0415124700 (pbk.)LON: 11258122
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The Polity reader in cultural theory Cambridge [England]: Polity Press, 1994.
Call No: 62(04) POLPlace: Cambridge [England]Publisher: Polity PressPubDate: 1994PhysDes: 307 p. ; 23 cmSubject: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA ; MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA ; SEMIOLOGY ; STAR SYSTEM ; COMMERCIALS, TV ; CHILDREN AND THE CINEMA ; SOAP OPERAS ; MONROE, MARILYN ; BARTHES, ROLAND ; ADORNO, THEODOR W. ; Baudrillard, Jean ; SAUSSURE, FERDINAND DE ; OMEN, THE (US, Richard Donner, 1976) ; EXORCIST, THE (US, William Friedkin, 1973) Notes: Thirty papers; Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 0745612075; 0745612083 (pbk.)LON: bnb74561207; 10481206
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Postmodernism and popular culture : a cultural history / John Docker Cambridge New York Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Call No: 64POS DOCAuthor: Docker, John Place: Cambridge New York MelbournePublisher: Cambridge University PressPubDate: 1994PhysDes: xxi, 313 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cmSubject: POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA ; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA ; STRUCTURALISM ; MELODRAMA ; SOAP OPERAS ; DETECTIVE FILMS ; GENRES ; THEORY ; BRERETON, LAURIE ; FISKE, JOHN ; KENNEDY, GRAHAM ; MACCABE, COLIN ; MULVEY, LAURA ; JAMESON, FREDRIC ; BAHTIN, MIHAIL ; ADORNO, THEODOR W. ; BENJAMIN, WALTER ; DERRIDA, JACQUES ; PRISONER [TV] (AT, 1979-86) Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 285-306ISBN: 0521465982 (pbk.); 052146045XLON: abn97324302; 13458960
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Still life in real time : Theory after television / Richard Dienst Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1994.
Call No: 62 DIEAuthor: Dienst, Richard Place: Durham, N.C.Publisher: Duke University PressPubDate: 1994PhysDes: xvi, 207 pages ; 23 cmSeries: Post-contemporary interventionsSubject: ALTHUSSER, LOUIS ; ADORNO, THEODOR W. ; CAPITALISM AND THE CINEMA ; DERRIDA, JACQUES ; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA ; GODARD, JEAN-LUC ; HEIDEGGER, MARTIN ; VIDEO RECORDERS Summary: "Five theoretical projects provide Still Life in Real Time with its framework: the cultural studies tradition of Raymond Williams; Marxist political economy; Heideggerian existentialism; Derridean deconstruction; and a Deleuzian anatomy of images. Drawing lessons from television programs like Twin Peaks and Crime Story, television events like the Gulf War, and television personalities like Madonna, Dienst produces a remarkable range of insights on the character of the medium and on the theories that have been affected by it." -- publisher's advertisementNotes: Includes index -- Includes bibliographical referencesISBN: 0822314665Donation: Adrian MilesContents: Part I: Televisual Flows -- The Outbreak of Television -- Image/Machine/Image: Marx and Metaphor in Television Theory -- Part II: Commercial Breaks -- History, the Eternal Rerun: On Crime Story -- Mondino, MTV, and the Laugh of Madonna -- "Appetite and satisfaction, a Golden Circle": Magic and commerce in Twin Peaks -- Part III: Theoretical images -- The dangers of being in a televisual world: Heidegger and the ontotechnological question -- From post cards to smart bombs (and back again): derrida and the televisual textual system -- Ineluctable modalities of the televisual
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Theories of cinema, 1945-1995 / Francesco Casetti ; translated by Francesca Chiostri and Elizabeth Gard Bartolini-Salimbeni, with Thomas Kelso Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999.
Call No: 62 CASAuthor: Casetti, Francesco Edition: 1st edPlace: AustinPublisher: University of Texas PressPubDate: 1999PhysDes: 368 p. ; 24 cmSubject: THEORY ; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA ; SEMIOLOGY ; LANGUAGE AND THE CINEMA ; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA ; GENDER AND THE CINEMA ; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA ; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA ; PERCEPTION ; SPECTATORSHIP ; BELLOUR, RAYMOND ; ADORNO, THEODOR W. ; BARTHES, ROLAND ; BAZIN, ANDRE ; BORDWELL, DAVID ; DELEUZE, GILLES ; KRACAUER, SIEGFRIED ; LACAN, JACQUES ; HORKHEIMER, MAX ; MITRY, JEAN ; MORAN, EDGAR ; LYOTARD, JEAN-FRANCOIS ; METZ, CHRISTIAN Notes: "Revised and updated by the author."; Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-359) and indexISBN: 0292712065 (hc :acid-free paper); 0292712073 (pbk.)LON: 14328673
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