Self-Reference in the Media

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2007

Self-Reference in the Media

Edited by: Winfried Nöth and Nina Bishara

Volume 6 in the series Approaches to Applied Semiotics [AAS]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110198836

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About this book

This book investigates how the media have become self-referential or self-reflexive instead of mediating between the real or fictional worlds about which their messages pretend to be and between the audience that they wish to inform, counsel, or entertain. The concept of self-reference is viewed very broadly. Self-reflexivity, metatexts, metapictures, metamusic, metacommunication, as well as intertextual, and intermedial references are all conceived of as forms of self-reference, although to different degrees and levels.

The contributions focus on the semiotic foundations of reference and self-reference, discuss the transdisciplinary context of self-reference in postmodern culture, and examine original studies from the worlds of print advertising, photography, film, television, computer games, media art, web art, and music. A wide range of different media products and topics are discussed including self-promotion on TV, the TV show Big Brother, the TV format "historytainment," media nostalgia, the documentation of documentation in documentary films, Marilyn Monroe in photographs, humor and paradox in animated films, metacommunication in computer games, metapictures, metafiction, metamusic, body art, and net art.

Author / Editor information

Winfried Nöth and Nina Bishara, University of Kassel, Germany.

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Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Part I: Self-referentialmedia: Theoretical frameworks
Self-reference in the media:The semiotic framework Winfried Nöth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Distortion, fabrication, and disclosure in a self-referential culture:The irresistible force of reality Vincent Colapietro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
Part II: Self-referential print advertising
Modes of self-reference in advertising Siegfried J. Schmidt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
Metapictures and self-referential pictures Winfried Nöth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
“Absolut Anonymous”: Self-reference in opaque advertising Nina Bishara Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
Part III: Self-referential photography
The death of photography in self-reference Winfried Nöth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
Marilyn:A paragone of the camera gaze Kay Kirchmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
Part IV: Self-referential film
The self-reflexive screen: Outlines of a comprehensive model Gloria Withalm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
Nostalgia of the media / in the media Andreas Böhn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
Self-reference in animated films Jan Siebert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Part V: Self-referential television
On the use of self-disclosure as a mode of audiovisual reflexivity Fernando Andacht Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
The old in the new: Forms and functions of archive material in the presentation of television history on television Joan K. Bleicher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
There’s no business without show-business: Self-reference as self-promotion Karin Pühringer and Gabriele Siegert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Part VI: Self-referential games
Computer games:The epitome of self-reference Lucia Santaella Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Self-reference in computer games: A formalistic approach Bo Kampmann Walther Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Metacommunication in play and in (computer) games Britta Neitzel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
Self-reflexivity in computer games: Analyses of selected examples Bernhard Rapp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
Part VII: Other self-referential arts
Looking through the computer screen: Self-reflexivity in net.art Marie-Laure Ryan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
The artist and her bodily self: Self-reference in digital art/media Christina Ljungberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
Metafiction and metamusic: Exploring the limits of metareference Werner Wolf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Students and Researchers in the fields of Communication, Semiotics, Culture, Media, Film, Television, Cyberculture (Computer Games, Net Art, etc.), and Musicology
Pages
- Front matter: 11
- Main content: 340
Keywords: Semiotics; communication; media

eBook

Published: September 25, 2008
ISBN: 9783110198836

Hardcover

Published: October 23, 2007
ISBN: 9783110194647