Orality, literacy, and modern media
By: edited by Dietrich Scheunemann.
Contributors: Scheunemann, Dietrich.
Publisher: Camden House
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Columbia, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
Subjects: Mass media.; Oral communication.; Oral tradition.; Written communication.; Visual communication.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-202) and index.
Chiefly a collection of papers originally presented at a workshop which was held Sept. 1995, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Table of contents: value: The old tinkerman's lamp / Duncan Williamson; value: The eye behind the mouth, the contribution of visual memory to oral storytelling / Alan Bruford and Natalya Todd; value: Orality and literacy, on their medial and conceptual aspects / Wolfgang Raible; value: Oral and written effects and sources in the Clanranald histories / William Gillies; value: Eighteenth century fraud and oral tradition, the "real" Ossian / Anja Gunderloch; value: The speaking author, "Skaz" in Mikhail Zoshchenko's Sentimental Tales / Rose France; value: "Collecting shells" in the age of technological reproduction, on storytelling, writing, and the film / Dietrich Scheunemann; value: The project of sound, on the transition from silent to sound film / Ulrich Militz and Walter Schobert; value: The art of seeing, the art of listening, Straub and Huillet's "Tape on Bach" / Ursula Böser; value: The independence of verbal and non-verbal signs in Losey's film The go-between / Isabel Kobus; value: The 1992 presidential debates, image creation and storytelling on television / Paul Goetsch; value: "Rush hour", stylistic features of a Russian interview program / Lara Ryazanova; value: New German cinema, the art of film in the age of television / Dietrich Scheunemann; value: The digitalization of images, sound and text, transformation of television / Helmut Schanze.