Sophie Calle: Ma’s-tu vue / Did You See Me? (2003)
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“The work of conceptual artist Sophie Calle embraces photography, storytelling, film, memoir as well as other media. Often controversial, Calle’s projects explore issues of voyeurism, intimacy, and identity as she secretly investigates, reconstructs and documents the lives of strangers–whether she’s inviting them to sleep in her bed, trailing them through a hotel, or following them through the city. Taking on multiple roles–detective, documentarian, behavioural scientist and diarist–Sophie Calle turns the interplay between life and art on its head.
The book presents Calle’s best-known works, including The Blind, No Sex Last Night, The Hotel, The Address Book and A Woman Vanishes, as well as lesser known and earlier projects that have largely escaped the public eye. This compendium of Calle’s photographs, diary excerpts and video stills also includes three critical essays and two interviews with the artist.”
First published in French by Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2003.
English edition
Publisher Prestel, 2003; Second edition, 2008
ISBN 3791330357, 9783791330358
443 pages
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Comment (0)Art Silverblatt: Genre Studies in Mass Media: A Handbook (2007)
Filed under book | Tags: · genre, mass media, media literacy, popular culture, reality television, science fiction, television, video games, voyeurism, youth
The study of various types of programming is essential for critical analysis of the media and also offers revealing perspectives on society’s cultural values, preoccupations, behavior, and myths. This handbook provides a systematic, in-depth approach to the study of media genres–including reality programs, game shows, situation comedies, soap operas, film noir, news programs, and more. The author addresses such questions as: Have there been shifts in the formula of particular genres over time? What do these shifts reveal about changes in culture? How and why do new genres–such as reality TV shows–appear? Are there differences in genres from one country to another?
Combining theoretical approaches with concrete examples, the book reinforces one’s understanding of the importance of genre to the creation, evolution, and consumption of media content. Each chapter in this reader-friendly book contains a detailed discussion of one of the theoretical approaches to genre studies, followed by Lines of Inquiry, which summarizes the major points of the discussion and suggests directions for analysis and further study. Each chapter also includes an example that illustrates how the particular theoretical approach can be applied in the analysis of genre. The author’s careful linkage of different genres to the real world makes the book widely useful for those interested in genre study as well as media and culture, television studies, film studies, and media literacy.
Publisher M.E. Sharpe, 2007
ISBN 076561670X, 9780765616708
Length 258 pages
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Laura U. Marks: Touch: Sensuous Theory and Multisensory Media (2002)
Filed under book | Tags: · ascii, experimental film, feminism, film, performance art, pornography, video art, voyeurism
In Touch, Laura U. Marks develops a critical approach more tactile than visual, an intensely physical and sensuous engagement with works of media art that enriches our understanding and experience of these works and of art itself.
These critical, theoretical, and personal essays serve as a guide to developments in nonmainstream media art during the past ten years-sexual representation debates, documentary ethics, the shift from analog to digital media, a new social obsession with smell. Marks takes up well-known artists like experimental filmmaker Ken Jacobs and mysterious animators the Brothers Quay, and introduces groundbreaking, lesser-known film, video, and digital artists.
From this emerges a materialist theory-an embodied, erotic relationship to art and to the world. Marks’s approach leads to an appreciation of the works’ mortal bodies: film’s volatile emulsion, video’s fragile magnetic base, crash-prone Net art; it also offers a productive alternative to the popular understanding of digital media as “virtual” and immaterial. Weaving a continuous fabric from philosophy, fiction, science, dreams, and intimate experience, Touch opens a new world of art media to readers.
Publisher U of Minnesota Press, 2002
ISBN 0816638896, 9780816638895
259 pages
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