The digital banal : new media and American literature and culture /

"Contemporary culture is haunted by its media. In its ubiquity digital media have become increasingly banal and in the process its meaning and influence have become less visibly apparent. Contemporary novelists and filmmakers have narrated and depicted everyday life in a way- that represents th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dinnen, Zara (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]
Colección:Literature Now.
Temas:
2000-2099
Technology in literature.
American literature > 21st century > History and criticism.
Technology in motion pictures.
Digital media > Social aspects.
Banality (Philosophy)
Technologie dans la littérature.
Littérature américaine > 21e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Technologie au cinéma.
Médias numériques > Aspect social.
Banalité (Philosophie)
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.
American literature
Digital media > Social aspects
Technology in literature
Technology in motion pictures
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : thinking with the digital banal
  • David Fincher's grammar of code
  • Jonathan Lethem and Mark Amerika's common writing
  • Being social in a post-digital world in Catfish and How should a person be?
  • Twenty years of Californian ideology in The Bug and The Circle
  • Refresh, update, wait, or, living with the digital banal in Chronic city and Refresh refresh
  • Speculating on the real estate of the digital banal
  • Conclusion : after the digital banal.

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