scholarly journals Wymiary transfikcjonalności

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krzysztof M. Maj
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
The World ◽  
Classical Narratology ◽  
Postclassical Narratology ◽  
Theory Of Literature

The article Facets of Transfictionality delivers a concise analysis of the newly-introduced narratological concept of “transfictionality” (put forward by Richard Saint-Gelais in the early 2000s). The author discusses the phenomenon as emerging on the border between the text-centred poetics of classical narratology and the world-centred poetics of postclassical narratology by use of Jan-Noël Thon’s and Marie-Laure Ryan’s project of “media-conscious narratology”. Defined as such, transfictionality allows the contemporary phenomena of retelling or cross-over to be described without the necessity of reproducing fan-made concepts and terms of such ilk, and instead rooting them in established theoretical constructs, such as narrative metalepsis. Consequently, the article illustrates the postclassical theory of narrative and the theory of literature with examples more common to media studies, with the aim being to emphasise Ryan’s thesis that transmediality is only a specific case of transfictionality, and that the latter is a far older and better acknowledged concept what is generally understood as the theory of fiction. Moreover, the text follows up on Saint-Gelais’ inspirations derived from Umberto Eco’s cultural semiotics and proposes to introduce an Eco-inspired concept of “xeno-encyclopaedic competence” in order to determine a specific recipient’s competence that allows them to move across not only media or texts but also imaginary worlds, which consequently become their fictional habitats.

scholarly journals A (premature) eulogy of broadcasting: the sense of the ending of television

Matrizes ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Milly Buonanno
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Broadcast Television ◽  
The World ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
The Way

The vanishing centrality of broadcast television has turned into a key issue within contemporary media studies, thus making the end of television a familiar trope in scholarly discourses and opening the way to a redefinition of the present-day phase in terms of post-broadcast era. Besides recognizing that there are plenty of places in the world where the broadcast era is still alive, this article makes the claim that the discoursive formation of the passing of television as we knew it may offer media scholar-ship the opportunity to assume the viewpoint of the end as the privileged perspective from which the broadcast era can be looked at anew, eventually acknowledging the reasons why it is liable to be praised rather than buried.

scholarly journals The World of Classical Music in the TV Series Mozart in the Jungle

2018 ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Jelisaveta Mojsilović
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
English Language ◽  
Classical Music ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Abstract Concept ◽  
20Th Century Music ◽  
Four Seasons ◽  
The World ◽  
Tv Show

Mozart in the Jungle is a popular TV show in four seasons, which premiered in December 2014 from Amazon Studios. This series is the first of its type in the English language: focusing on classical music and the life of classical musicians as its topic. In this series, the concept of classical music applies to the world of artistic music from the baroque period to the 20th century music, and to institutions that in the modern world represent artistic music, people who are practice this music and the target group for which it is intended. Thus, Mozart in the Jungle indicates that world of artistic music exists in the way of the artworld, if we understand this term according to theoretician Arthur Danto. In such a way, we are discussing the concept of classical music, which is not just some abstract concept. On the contrary, it implies an actual institution of classical music starting from the infrastructure of the institution, people who are producing it, to the building itself of that institution. Therefore, we are ‘targeting’ stereotypes of classical music and musicians, and furthermore, we are coming to possible answers on the question regarding who is Mozart in the world of the classical music featured in this series. Article received: March 25, 2018; Article accepted: May 10, 2018; Published online: October 15, 2018; Preliminary report – Short CommunicationsHow to cite this article: Mojsilović, Jelisaveta. "The World of Classical Music in the TV Series Mozart in the Jungle." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 17 (2018): 71−77. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i17.271

Schizoecologic Cartographies

2020 ◽  
pp. 51-124
Author(s):  
Hanjo Berressem
Keyword(s):  
Digital Divide ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Meta Model ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Ecological Parameters ◽  
Striated Space

The chapter first defines the status of the diagram that underlies Schizoanalytic Cartographies as a formal diagram of an informal world. As such, it is itself a figure of the various complementarities that are defined within it. Using foldings of the diagram to organize the text, the chapter subsequently provides an in-depth analysis of the relations between and the superpositions of its four functors: Flows, Phyla, Territories and Universes. Next, it presents the diagram’s inherently ecological parameters. By way of tracing the vectors between its various positions, it defines the diagram as a meta-model of the expressive relation between the world and its creatures. After showing Guattari’s recalibration of the distinction between smooth and striated space, it exemplifies the notion of an expressive ecology in four sections that perform the squaring of concepts (chlorophyll), of the unconscious (Lacan), of aesthetics (Balthus) and of media studies (the analog and digital divide).

Narratology

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald Prince
Keyword(s):  
Good Deal ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Critical Commentary ◽  
Narrative Production ◽  
Feminist Narratology ◽  
Cognitive Narratology ◽  
Classical Narratology ◽  
Postclassical Narratology ◽  
Considerable Body ◽  
The Way

Narratology studies what all and only possible narratives have in common as well as what allows them to differ from one another qua narratives, and it attempts to characterize the narratively pertinent set of rules and norms governing narrative production and processing. This structuralist-inspired endeavor began to assume the characteristics of a discipline in 1966 with the publication of the eighth issue of Communications, which was devoted to the structural analysis of narrative and included contributions by the French or francophone founders of narratology. In its first decades, or what has come to be viewed as its classical period, narratology dedicated much of its attention to characterizing the constituents of the narrated (the “what” that is represented), those of the narrating (the way in which the “what” is represented), and the principles regulating their modes of combination. Though classical narratology had ambitions to be an autonomous branch of poetics rather than a foundation for critical commentary and a handmaid to interpretation, the narrative features that it described made up a toolkit for the study of particular texts and fostered a considerable body of narratological criticism. Besides, by encouraging the exploration of the theme of narrative as well as the frame that narrative constitutes, it contributed to the so-called narrative turn, which is the reliance on the notion “narrative” to discuss not only representations but any number of activities, practices, and domains. In part because of the influence of narratological criticism and that of other disciplines; in part because of its biases and insufficiencies; and in part because of its very concerns, goals, and achievements, classical narratology went through important changes and evolved into postclassical narratology. The latter, which rethinks, refines, expands, and diversifies its predecessor, comes in many varieties, including feminist narratology, which exposes the way sex, gender, and sexuality affect the shape of narrative; cognitive narratology, which examines those aspects of mind pertaining to narrative production and processing; natural narratology, in which experientiality, the evocation of experience, is the determining element of narrativity; and unnatural narratology, which concentrates on nonmimetic or anti-mimetic narratives and tests the precision or applicability of narratological categories, distinctions, and arguments. Other topics—for example the links between geography and narrative or the narratological differences between fictional and nonfictional narrative representations—have lately evoked a good deal of interest. Ultimately, whatever the specific narratological variety or approach involved, narratologists continue to try and develop an explicit, complete, and empirically or experimentally grounded model of their singularly human object.

Nienaturalna narratologia

Tekstualia ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (36) ◽  
pp. 181-194
Author(s):  
Bartosz Lutostański
Keyword(s):  
Unnatural Narratology ◽  
The World ◽  
Postclassical Narratology

Unnatural narratology is one of the most important branches of the contemporary (postclassical) narratology. Its aim is to redefi ne narrative and its properties. Despite its growing popularity over the last ten years, unnatural narratology is still highly contentious around the world and relatively unknown in Poland. In my paper I discuss what unnatural narratology is and its basic analysis elements (unnatural storyworlds, unnatural minds and unnatural acts of narration). Finally I refer to scholars offering critical comments against unnatural narratology.

The Transformation of Theory – from Distraction to Recombinant Poetics

Tekstualia ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (35) ◽  
pp. 105-114
Author(s):  
Ewa Szczęsna
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Comparative Studies ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Artistic Practice ◽  
The Status ◽  
Media Discourses ◽  
Theory Of Literature

The article examines the status of the theory of literature in the contemporary humanities. Today, literary studies are epistemological representations of literatu re, with blurred or fl exible distinctions. The fundamental differences among arts, media, discourses, especially between the theory of art and artistic practice, creates a new ontology of the texts of culture. Recombinant texts require a recombinant poetics and a new theory established through dialogue. The analysis of trans-semiotic, trans-medial and trans-discursive texts shows the necessity of an open theory of text. This theory is shaped through the interplay of various domains (e.g. semiotics, comparative studies, media studies, literary studies).

Peripheral Visions / Global Sounds

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Colmeiro
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
The State ◽  
Cultural Identities ◽  
The Real ◽  
Border Zones ◽  
Global Age ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject

Galician audio/visual culture has experienced an unprecedented period of growth following the process of political and cultural devolution in post-Franco Spain. This creative explosion has occurred in a productive dialogue with global currents and with considerable projection beyond the geopolitical boundaries of the nation and the state, but these seismic changes are only beginning to be the subject of attention of cultural and media studies. This book examines contemporary audio/visual production in Galicia as privileged channels through which modern Galician cultural identities have been imagined, constructed and consumed, both at home and abroad. The cultural redefinition of Galicia in the global age is explored through different media texts (popular music, cinema, video) which cross established boundaries and deterritorialise new border zones where tradition and modernity dissolve, generating creative tensions between the urban and the rural, the local and the global, the real and the imagined. The book aims for the deperipheralization and deterritorialization of the Galician cultural map by overcoming long-established hegemonic exclusions, whether based on language, discipline, genre, gender, origins, or territorial demarcation, while aiming to disjoint the center/periphery dichotomy that has relegated Galician culture to the margins. In essence, it is an attempt to resituate Galicia and Galician studies out of the periphery and open them to the world.

scholarly journals The Role of Journalism in Mediatization of the World of Everyday Life

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 595-611
Author(s):  
Olga Smirnova ◽  
Luisa Svitich ◽  
Mikhail Shkondin
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Informational Support ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One

The role of journalism and the media in forming the world of everyday life has been viewed as a key one for quite a long period of human history. Moreover, in the context of digitalization and mediatization of every social reality, it is becoming even more important. The integrative nature of the modern media provides for an environment where interaction between journalism, the media and their audiences has a crucial impact on all social phenomena, on the life of every person and of the society in general. The article states that, in the context of media digitalization, the world of everyday life is intensively mediatized and undergoes radical changes, which makes it a relevant object of media studies. The authors emphasize the great significance of the media in social construction processes that are based on fast information exchange and the synchronous dynamics of events in the world of everyday life. They also underline the relevance of studying both journalism and media processes as integral parts the world of everyday life, which features continuous variability of social realities and their newsworthiness. In today’s society, contradictions between the opportunities offered by digitalization and mediatization of social realities on the one hand, and the limited practical usage of these opportunities on the other, are aggravating. Therefore, it is necessary to reassess the functions of journalism in optimizing the world of everyday life, and correlate the renewed understanding of these functions to that of journalists as key agents that provide informational support and coverage of all social processes.

scholarly journals Cyber Yugoslavia: from the World of Nations to the World of Cyber Countries

2017 ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
Lada Stevanović
Keyword(s):  
Federal Republic ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Nation State ◽  
The World ◽  
State Construction ◽  
The Way

This paper examines Cyber Yugoslavia, a state created on the internet, after the fall of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY). Located in cyberspace, Cyber  Yugoslavia belongs to the corpus of virtual countries appearing as a subversive response to the nationalism and wars that led to the disintegration of the SFRY. The ludic and parodic character of CY makes it a unique example of the way in which it challenges and questions deep structures and ideological mechanisms of nation and nation-state construction. Using parody and laughter, CY deconstructs the concepts that are essential parts in creating the ideology of nation. The very same concepts are the focus of the theoretical approach to nation, wherefore the paper focuses on the intersection of theoretical and IT creative work. Article received: May 5, 2017; Article accepted: May 10, 2017; Published online: September 15, 2017Original scholarly paperHow to cite this article: Stevanović, Lada. "Cyber Yugoslavia: from the World of Nations to the World of Cyber Countries." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 13 (2017): 73-87. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i13.184

scholarly journals A Note from the New Book Review Editor

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-130
Author(s):  
Manlio Della Marca
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Art History ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Review Section ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
Review Editor ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Selection Of

Starting with this issue, our journal will include a completely redesigned Book Review Section, featuring three to five high-quality reviews by leading and emerging scholars from around the world. As for the selection of the books to be reviewed, even though I am a literary scholar, it is my intention as Review Editor to consider books that engage with the U.S. and the Americas as a hemispheric and global phenomenon from a wide range of perspectives and disciplines, including anthropology, art history, and media studies.

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