Epistolary Entanglements in Film, Media and the Visual Arts (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789463729666)

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). The category Epistolary encapsulates an increasingly paradoxical relation between writing and the self: first, it describes selves that are written in graphic detail via letters, diaries, blogs, texts, emails and tweets; second, it acknowledges that absence complicates communication, bringing people together in an entangled rather than ordered way. The collection concerns itself with the changing visual/textual texture of screen media and examines what is at stake for our understanding of self-expression when it takes Epistolary forms.

Author: Teri Higgins
ISBN-10: 9463729666
ISBN-13: 9789463729666
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/14/2023
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.36lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.38w x 0.94d