Contenu connexe Similaire à Media history introduction_and_the_book Similaire à Media history introduction_and_the_book (20) Plus de Steen Christiansen Plus de Steen Christiansen (20) 3. What is this course?
The study of media and their
cultural impact
4. What is this course?
The aesthetic development of
media texts
5. What is this course?
The reasons for media
transformations
9. What will I learn?
Media's ubiquitous and
fundamental role for our lives
10. What will I learn?
How to relate one media text to its
aesthetic, cultural, industrial and
technological context
18. Exam
You choose a media text which
you want to analyze, within the
media we discuss in class
21. What makes a good exam paper?
Situate the media text historically
22. What makes a good exam paper?
Consider How is the text's
aesthetics representative of its
historical context?
23. What makes a good exam paper?
Consider the text's cultural impact
24. What makes a good exam paper?
What technological changes were
part of this media text's
production?
42. Media history as explanation
All of these change as history
changes, as focus changes, as
trends develop, and according to
individual emphases.
49. The book as dominant medium
The Catholic Church's inability to
silence Martin Luther is
democratizing
50. The book as dominant medium
Information monopoly is broken
51. The book as dominant medium
With the rise of printing, copyright
is invented.
Why?
52. The book as dominant medium
Copyright is established by law in
England in 1662
53. The book as dominant medium
Writers may own content but not
the physical form of the book
54. The book as dominant medium
Book copyright becomes the basis
for all other forms of copyright
55. The book as dominant medium
Book copyright becomes the basis
for all other forms of copyright
56. The book as dominant medium
The printing press standardizes
language
57. The book as dominant medium
The printing press allows critical
public debates
60. Book culture
Early novels are regarded as
dangerous and invasive, since
women read novels instead of
doing household chores
66. Book culture
Dime novels became popular
entertainment and eventually trash
literature
67. Book culture
Book culture develops parallel with
other media (radio, film and
eventually television) but begins to
lose ground
72. Literary culture
Writers begin to experiment with
typography, colors and whitespace
81. Legacy of the book
Books establish linearity, authority
and narrative
83. Suggestions
Laurence Sterne, The Life and Times of
Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and
Incredibly Close
Steven Hall, The Raw Shark Texts
