Finding Augusta

Finding Augusta
Author: Heidi Rae Cooley
Publisher: Dartmouth College Press
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2014-03-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1611685222

Finding Augusta breaks new ground, revising how media studies interpret the relationship between our bodies and technology. This is a challenging exploration of how, for both good and ill, the sudden ubiquity of mobile devices, GPS systems, haptic technologies, and other forms of media alter individuals' experience of their bodies and shape the social collective. The author succeeds in problematizing the most salient fact of contemporary mobile media technologies, namely, that they have become, like highways and plumbing, an infrastructure that regulates habit. Audacious in its originality, Finding Augusta will be of great interest to art and media scholars alike.

No Innocent Bystanders

No Innocent Bystanders
Author: Frazer Ward
Publisher: UPNE
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2012
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1611683351

The changing role of the spectator in contemporary performance art

Stardust Monuments

Stardust Monuments
Author: Alison Trope
Publisher: UPNE
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2011
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1611680468

Hollywood is placeless, timeless, and iconic, a key fabricator and forger of American cultural myths and stories. How, then, will the history of Hollywood be written?

Writing National Cinema

Writing National Cinema
Author: Jeffrey Middents
Publisher: UPNE
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2009-07-15
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1584658428

A study of Peruvian Cinema and the role of criticism in forming a national cinematic vision

The Educated Eye

The Educated Eye
Author: Nancy A. Anderson
Publisher: UPNE
Total Pages: 502
Release: 2012
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1611682126

The creation and processing of visual representations in the life sciences is a critical but often overlooked aspect of scientific pedagogy. The Educated Eye follows the nineteenth-century embrace of the visible in new spectatoria, or demonstration halls, through the twentieth-century cinematic explorations of microscopic realms and simulations of surgery in virtual reality. With essays on Doc Edgerton's stroboscopic techniques that froze time and Eames's visualization of scale in Powers of Ten, among others, contributors ask how we are taught to see the unseen.