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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Medium Specificity"”.
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To adapt or not to adapt? : Writers and writing across prose fiction, theatre, and film 1823-1938
… between writers and media were fuelled by medium specificity theories and Romantic theories of originality spurned adaptation, this thesis finds that some literary writers challenged hierarchies of adaptation through presenting adaptations as originals (and vice versa), while others defied …
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Site Specifics: Modernist Mediums in Modern Places
… argues that the modernist doctrine of medium specificity, the idea that the autonomy of the arts arises from artworks' investigation of the properties and limits of their materials, grounds artistic production in the place where it was produced. The identity of artistic mediums …
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Surveys
… important, such as the Modernist notion of medium specificity and the Pictures Generation's skepticism toward originality. Combining these elements, I create work that transgresses the boundaries of these critical frameworks. By exploring and researching the elements of Modernist painting …
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Excavating discursivity : Post-Partum Document in the conceptualist, feminist and psychoanalytic fields
… dissertation addresses the project's "debate - specificity." The conventional art historical categorization and analysis of an artwork, one based upon its medium specificity, was a mode of modernist criticism that Kelly's work specifically interrogated. What therefore distinguished Post-Partum …
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Turning The Page: Fandoms, Multimodality, And The Transformation Of The 'comic Book' Superhero
… suggest that superhero film adaptations are the medium most associated with the superhero character. Such a monumental shift in the distribution of superheroes—comic books were long the dominant medium of superhero characters—is indicative of ongoing media convergence practices; the success of …
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Logics of Attention: Watching and Not-Watching Film and Television in Everyday Life
… distraction have been central to claims about medium specificity, genre and textuality, fandom, screen influence, and the organization of home life. By focusing on everyday knowledges about media engagement, my study both augments and complicates these assumptions about what it means to “watch” …
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Unfolding the act of photography
… I both revisit discourses that have dealt with medium specificity issues and use my own practice, designing an apprehension model which can assist in the achievement of a more rigorous conception of the photograph. An integrative literature review, based on Photography discourses and debates …
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Thinking space : adapting narrative cinema for installation art
… and cultural activity, and with respect to medium specificity. A question about video and film installation has been posed by, amongst others, Kate Mondloch (2007): how to reconcile a preoccupation with object and site, that embraces the spectator in a phenomenological relationship with the …
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"Inventories of Limbo": Post-Minimal Aesthetics in Cinema From the Readymade to Institutional Critique
… a perspective outside its historical bonds to medium, style, and Kantian aesthetic judgment. I examine three strategies in the progression of post-minimal aesthetic practice: the readymade, institutional critique, and seriality. A central goal of this research is to remap entrenched language …
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Remote Control: Art, Technology, and the Politics of Distance (1966-1972)
… of critics had canonized “presentness” and medium specificity, a younger cohort read the work differently, finding in it permission to embrace remoteness, intermedia experimentation, and political messaging. Artists including Robert Rauschenberg, Allan Kaprow, Marta Minujín, Wolf Vostell, …
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Scriptwriting and the Transformation of Realities: A Critical Discussion of Story Creation, Transformation and Transmedia Storytelling in Animation, Comics and Computer Games
… the appropriateness and potential of each medium and which invites further audience engagement across the transmediated experience.<br/><br/>Rather than seeking to reveal from the post of production in the study of transmedia this thesis focusses on what the activity of writing creatively …
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Rethinking word / image relationships in contemporary art
… who differentiates between the arts in terms of medium specificity. In problematising the ways in which interarts debates have posited word/image in a dualistic relationship, this thesis exposes the difficulties in establishing an adequate critical discourse for dealing with the conjunction of …
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In the Midst of the Spectacular: Performance, Media, and Criticism in Frank O’Hara
… that his detailed critical engagement with these mediums played in shaping his aesthetics. In this study, I address this oversight by considering the generative relationship O’Hara fostered between his writing and a host of performance media, arguing that it was these media that enabled him to see …
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Pragmatics of attachment and detachment: medium (un)specificity as material agency in contemporary art
… is historically grounded in the interrogation of medium specific conventions can continue to be viable within a post medium/ postmodern contemporary art context. Implicit within this are two further considerations concerning the relationship between aesthetic and extra-aesthetic contexts and the …
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Branding History: Literature-to-Screen Adaptation and the Cultural Memory of China’s Second World War
… memory indicates that games, as an emerging medium not yet as tightly regulated as other cultural forms, bear the potential to foster historical narratives that diverge from mainstream history. From the perspective of literature-to-screen adaptation, this dissertation seeks to illustrate not …