Die Rezeption von Filmen und Fernsehsendungen ist sowohl vom Wissen und den Emotionen der Zuschauer als auch von sozialen Kontexten abhängig. Es reicht daher nicht aus, die "Sprache" von movie und Fernsehen zu analysieren, sondern es müssen auch die shape, die Gestaltung, die Dramaturgie und der Inhalt auf die Kontexte der Rezeption bezogen werden.

Dieses Standardwerk von Lothar Mikos ist eine erprobte Anleitung zur Durchführung von movie- und Fernsehanalysen, inklusive aktueller Entwicklungen wie Transmedia Storytelling oder 3D-Film. Mit aufschlussreichen

Beispielanalysen zu "Herr der Ringe", "Terminator", "Game of Thrones", "Germany‘s subsequent Topmodel" sowie Filmen des "Marvel Cinematic Universe".

Prof. Dr. Lothar Mikos lehrt Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft an der Filmuniversität Babelsberg. Konrad Wolf in Potsdam.

Das web ist seit einigen Jahren fester Bestandteil in Wahlkämpfen weltweit. Auch im internet 2.0 präsentieren sich die Parteien auf Internet-Videokanälen wie YouTube, legen Profile in Social-Software-Anwendungen wie fb, MySpace oder Flickr an, bitten um einen intensiveren conversation mit den Wählern. used to be aber steht hinter diesem "neuen Internet", welche shape von Partizipation ist erwünscht? Worin liegen die Chancen auf ein höheres Maß an Demokratie, wie groß sind die Risiken, dass Menschen ohne Internetanschluss vermehrt ausgegrenzt werden? Kann das bereits zu Beginn des Internetzeitalters gemachte Versprechen einer breiteren politischen Beteiligung durch interaktive und multimediale Anwendungen im net 2.0 eingelöst werden? Zwei Wahlkämpfe aus dem Jahr 2007 dienen als Fallbeispiele für Marco Boschs kommunikationswissenschaftliche Studie zur Nutzung von internet 2.0 und Social-Software-Elementen beim Internet-Campaigning. Im Fokus stehen der französische Präsidentschaftswahlkampf und die Vorwahlen für die Präsidentschaftskandidatur der Demokraten in den united states. Das Buch gibt anhand der konkreten Beispielfälle Aufschluss darüber, ob das net 2.0 sein interaktives Potenzial in der Politik ausschöpfen kann, oder vorerst nur ein weiteres Werkzeug in der Trickkiste der Kampagnenplaner bleibt.

Imagined Landscapes groups geocritical research with electronic visualization concepts to map and interrogate movies, novels, and performs during which house and position determine prominently. Drawing upon A Cultural Atlas of Australia, a database-driven interactive electronic map that may be used to spot styles of illustration in Australia’s cultural panorama, the e-book offers an built-in standpoint at the translation of area throughout narrative varieties and pioneers new methods of seeing and figuring out panorama. It deals clean insights on cultural topography and spatial heritage through analyzing the technical and conceptual demanding situations of georeferencing fictional and fictionalized locations in narratives. one of the goods mentioned are Wake in Fright, a singular through Kenneth cook dinner, tailored iconically to the reveal and lately onto the degree; the Australian North as a mythic house; spatial and temporal narrative shifts in retellings of the tale of Alexander Pearce, a convict who won notoriety for resorting to cannibalism after escaping from a distant Tasmanian penal colony; go back and forth narratives and street video clips set in Western Australia; and the demanding situations and spatial politics of mapping areas for which there aren't any coordinates.

you'll by no means examine your cellphone, television, or laptop a similar means after examining this e-book. Greening the Media not just finds the soiled secrets and techniques that conceal inside of our favourite digital units; it additionally takes aside the myths that experience driven those contraptions to the heart of our lives. Marshaling an spectacular array of monetary, environmental, and ancient proof, Maxwell and Miller debunk the concept that details and verbal exchange applied sciences (ICT) are fresh and ecologically benign. The authors express how the actual truth of creating, eating, and discarding them is rife with poisonous elements, toxic operating stipulations, and unsafe waste. yet all isn't misplaced. because the identify indicates, Maxwell and Miller live seriously on those environmental difficulties that allows you to imagine creatively approximately how one can clear up them. They enlist quite a number strength allies during this attempt to foster greener media--from eco-friendly shoppers to eco-friendly electorate, with stops alongside easy methods to listen from exploited staff, celebrities, and diverse bureaucrats. eventually, Greening the Media rethinks the prestige of print and reveal applied sciences, starting new strains of historic and social research of ICT, purchaser electronics, and media production.

during this significant new ebook, top cultural philosopher Ien Ang engages with pressing questions of identification in an age of globalisation and diaspora. the start line for Ang's dialogue is the event of traveling Taiwan. Ang, someone of chinese language descent, born in Indonesia and raised within the Netherlands, came upon herself "faced with a virtually insurmountable hassle" - surrounded by means of those that anticipated her to talk to them in chinese language. She writes: "It used to be the start of a virtually decade-long engagement with the predicaments of `Chineseness' in diaspora. In Taiwan i used to be diverse simply because i could not converse chinese language; within the West i used to be assorted simply because I regarded Chinese". From this autobiographical starting, Ang is going directly to mirror upon tensions among `Asia' and `the West' at a countrywide and international point, and to contemplate the disparate meanings of `Chineseness' within the modern international. She deals a critique of the more and more competitive development of a world Chineseness, and demanding situations Western trends to equate `Chinese' with `Asian' id. Ang then turns to `the West', exploring the anomaly of Australia's identification as a `Western' nation within the Asian sector, and tracing Australia's uneasy dating with its Asian neighbours, from the White Australia coverage to modern multicultural society. eventually, Ang attracts jointly her dialogue of `Asia' and `the West' to contemplate the social and highbrow area of the `in-between', arguing for a theorising now not of `difference' yet of `togetherness' in modern societies.

This ebook argues that point trip fiction is a story “laboratory,” a environment for concept experiments within which crucial theoretical questions on storytelling—and, through extension, concerning the philosophy of temporality, historical past, and subjectivity—are represented within the kind of literal units and plots.

Drawing on physics, philosophy, narrative thought, psychoanalysis, and movie idea, the publication hyperlinks concepts in time shuttle fiction to precise shifts within the popularization of technological know-how, from evolutionary biology within the past due 1800s, via relativity and quantum physics within the mid–20th century, to more moderen “multiverse” cosmologies. Wittenberg indicates how expanding wisdom of recent medical types ends up in fantastic thoughts within the literary “time machine,” which evolves from a “vehicle” used mainly for sociopolitical observation right into a mental and narratological equipment in a position to exploring with nice sophistication the temporal constitution and importance of matters, viewpoints, and old events.

The e-book covers paintings by way of recognized time commute writers corresponding to H. G. Wells, Edward Bellamy, Robert Heinlein, Samuel Delany, and Harlan Ellison, in addition to pulp fiction writers of the Twenties throughout the Nineteen Forties, renowned and avant-garde postwar technological know-how fiction, tv indicates resembling “The Twilight area” and “Star Trek,” and
current cinema. Literature, movie, and television are learn along theoretical paintings starting from Einstein, Schrödinger, and Stephen Hawking to Gérard Genette, David Lewis, and Gilles Deleuze. Wittenberg argues that even the main mainstream audiences of renowned time commute fiction and cinema are vigorously engaged with the various similar questions about temporality, id, and background that hindrance literary theorists, media and movie students, and philosophers.

This publication locations itself on the nexus of present problems with violence, masculinity and tool within the postcolonial context and its illustration in its motion pictures in demanding, normalising, or contesting those significant matters of our occasions. The essays deal with the interaction of severe and theoretical insights either from literature and social stories in analysing the flicks in response to societal violence in postcolonial cultures: be it within the context of subtle terrorism, suicide bombings, the underworld, any organised crime, mob violence and so forth. The writers examine the the dynamics of the illustration of those matters as cinematic plots and strategies. They draw realization to the affective worth of the movies in producing and foregrounding the questions of emotions invoked through the onscreen violence, and the impression of this emotive kingdom at the problems with nationwide and cosmopolitan id formation. jointly, the essays improve either literary stories and social reviews with a nuanced borrowing and intermixing in their fundamental texts and modes of interpretation. This new choice of essays, hence, brings jointly, in a single quantity, the interaction of severe and theoretical insights from Literature, Sociology and Media Studies.

Fernsehen bietet Kindern eine Fülle an Figuren und Geschichten. Sie sind Fenster zur Welt, fabric für Fantasien und gehen in die Vorstellung davon ein, was once basic, richtig und möglich ist. Völlig selbstverständlich inszeniert es dabei immer auch Mädchen- und Junge-Sein, liefert Bilder von Männern und Frauen. Die Frage dabei ist v. a., wie Kinder und Jugendliche mit diesen Repräsentationen umgehen.
Dieses Buch fasst die 21 Studien des Forschungsschwerpunktes 'Fernsehlieblingsfiguren und ihre Bedeutung für Mädchen und Jungen' zusammen.
Aufgeteilt in fünf Teile werden - jeweils eingeleitet durch den internationalen Forschungsstand - Ergebnisse der bisher weltweit größten Medienanalyse zum Kinderfernsehen (Teil I), Erkenntnisse aus intensiven Fallstudien zur Bedeutung von Fernsehfiguren im Alltag von Kindern (Teil II) und Jugendlichen (Teil III) vorgestellt. Ergänzt wird dies mit formatspezifischen Studien zu Erfolgssendungen wie SpongeBob oder Hannah Montana (Teil IV) und Befragungen von Fernsehverantwortlichen und Kindern weltweit (Teil V).
In ihrer Breite und Vielfältigkeit geben die Forschungsergebnisse einen umfassenden Einblick in information der Gender-Repräsentation im Kinder- und kinderaffinen Fernsehen und zeigen, wie Mädchen und Jungen 'ihre' Fernsehheld(inn)en zur Identitätsentwicklung nutzen. Gemäß dem Auftrag des Internationalen Zentralinstituts für das Jugend- und Bildungsfernsehen (IZI) werden auf dieser foundation konkrete Ansätze zur Förderung der Qualität im Kinder- und Jugendfernsehen formuliert.

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