American studies as media studies
By: edited by Frank Kelleter, Daniel Stein
Contributors: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien. Annual Conference
Series: American studies -- v. 167; American studies (Munich, Germany) -- v. 167.
Publisher: Winter
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Heidelberg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9783825355173
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: Congresses; Civilization; Study and teaching; Mass media; American influences
Notes: Papers originally presented at the 53rd annual conference of the German Association for American Studies, which took place in June 2006 at the University of Göttingen.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: I. Strange sympathies: horizons of media theory in America and Germany; title: II. The book as medium and the mediality of literature. Building the better book: conversation, complication, and the constitution of the medium in The sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent / Mary Anne Snyder-Körber; title: "Earth adhering to their roots": Dickinson, Whitman, and the ecology of bookmaking / Christine Gerhardt; title: The noises of modernist form: John Dos Passos's Manhattan trnasfer, Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God, and the soundscapes of modernity / Philipp Schweighauser; title: Computer fictions: literary representation and computational media / John Johnston; title: III. Playing Indian: aesthic experience, recognition, Identity / Winfried Fluck; title: IV. Visual culture. "Golden all through": inter-hemispheric coloration to Spofford's "The amber gods" / R.J. Ellis; title: "After all, disaster is my muse": Art Spiegelman's In the shadow of no towers / Christina Meyer; title: "No more idols but me": Sylvia Plath as cinema icon / Georgina Banita; title: Representing natural catastrophes: nature and technology in Hollywood disaster movies / Nicole Schröder; title: V. "Is that what they think a real man looks like?": Hollywood, gender, and consumption / Pamela Church Gibson; title: VII. Intermediality: images-music-text. Memory, intermediality, and the (cognitive) sciences: re-cognizing cultural studies / Sabine Sielke; title: The intermedial experiments of modernist portraiture" Mina Loy and Gerturde Stein / Ulla Haselstein; title: From text-centered intermediality to cultural intermediality; or, How to make intermedia studies more cultural / Daniel Stein; title: Diamanda Galás: defining the space in-between / Julia Meier; title: VII. From PCs to iPods and beyond: the role of technologies and media in the United States / James W. Cortada; title: VIII. Politics and the public sphere. Challenging the political establishment: William Randolph Hearst, muckraking, and New York politics, 1905-1906 / Daniel Gossel; title: The mediated race to the White House: the institutionalization and development of Presidential debates / Matthias S. Fifka; title: Sentimental education, morality, and all the little things / Ulf Schulenberg; title: Dismantling the public sphere: the poetics of apathy / Astrid Franke; title: Electronic disturbances: creative resistance on the Net / Pia Wiegmink; title: IX. The didactics of media studies. Bringing home Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five: war against cities, and e-teaching on one of its locales / Bruno Arich-Gerz; title: The aftermath of 9/11 in literature and in blogs: a comparative approach / Martina Wolff.