Poetic Acts & New Media (Paperback)

Poetic Acts & New Media advances the fields of literary and new media studies by clarifying boundaries between competing genres and media through the creation of a new artistic genre, "media poetry." This aesthetic mode of expression/becoming seeks to transform mass culture (our codes of communication) by self-consciously acknowledging how textual, audio, and/or visual signs are constructed according to their simulation and not their representation. This study draws heavily upon literary media theories that intersect with Gilles Deleuze's philosophy of 'Sense' as a simulated power of sensory transformations. Media poetry becomes a complex power of 'Sense' by blending conventional mass-media codes with poetic simulations that provide alternative forms of creating meaning. Poetic Acts & New Media specifically examines the works of several poets that exemplify this multi-sensory approach to printed-text poetry, especially: * Langston Hughes * Tony Medina * David Wojahn * John Kinsella * David Trinidad. It also analyzes several contemporary films that embody the multi-modal logic of media poetry: * David Lynch's Mullholland Drive * Cameron Crowe's Vanilla Sky * Spike Jonze's Being John Malkovich. In addition, this study interprets two influential primetime TV shows as exemplars of media poetry: Twin Peaks and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. All media poetry, regardless of genre or medium, allows readers/viewers to envision "reality production" as a rewriteable and poetic enterprise that can productively remediate any transparent abstraction or common-sense realism.

General

Imprint:	University Press of America
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2007
First published:	2006
Authors:	Tom O'Connor
Dimensions:	230 x 154 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	204
ISBN-13:	978-0-7618-3630-8
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Film theory & criticism Promotions
LSN:	0-7618-3630-6
Barcode:	9780761836308

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