The Screen Media Reader

Culture, Theory, Practice

By: Stephen Monteiro (Editor)

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Hardcover | 12 January 2017

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As mobile media, media convergence, digital networks, and graphic interfaces become primary topics of media studies, the screen that underlies and unites them has emerged as a critical area of research and study. As such, the reader brings together texts from diverse sources-academic and popular books and journals, inventors, journalists, researchers, and theorists-that nevertheless explore the screen as a key component not only in popular culture but also in our very understanding of the world around us.

The Screen Media Reader includes seminal historical writings on screen studies by well-known theorists, those that have had limited exposure and those appearing in English, from French, for the first time-reinforcing the link between study of the screen and what has been called "French Theory." Stephen Monteiro deftly provides historical breadth contextualizing definitions and understandings of the screen across the different stages of its development as a primary tool of visual communication and illustrates through these examples the long-standing, fundamental role screens have played in society and scholarship, extending well beyond our ideas of 21st century screen "saturation" and "addiction."

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The volume's multidisciplinary approach provides a comprehensive range of insights into the screen's social, historical, and cultural significance. * Mobile Media & Communication *
This volume represents a timely, capacious, and essential accounting of screens as media-a thorough thinking-through of screens not only as holders of images but as material sites of transmission, communication, and the production of knowledge. The book's cross-media and transhistorical approach brilliantly reveals new ways to conceive of screen studies' increasingly central place in humanities scholarship. * Gregory Zinman, Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA *
Far more than just an anthology, The Screen Media Reader is perhaps the most comprehensive response yet to the multiplicity and ambiguity of the contemporary screen, responding to its multifarious nature by juxtaposing diverse writings about it - from Plato, through Daguerre, to Manovich and Friedberg. By bringing together the most exciting writing in this field and contextualising it with clear, section-by-section introductions, the book offers a unique insight into the screen's fast-evolving nature and how leading thinkers have responded to it. For anyone interested in how screens function and how we engage with them, The Screen Media should be the first book to turn to. * Richard Misek, Senior Lecturer in Film Practice, University of Kent, UK *
A stimulating and imaginative compilation of essays which should excite any student. * Claire Barwell, University for the Creative Arts, UK *

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