Media and Genre: Dialogues in Aesthetics and Cultural Analysis
Ivo Ritzer
Jan 2022 · Springer Nature
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307
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This book reflects and analyzes the relationship between media and genre, focusing on both aesthetics and discursive meaning. It considers genres as having a decisive impact on media cultures, either in film, on TV, in computer games, comics or radio, on the level of production as well as reception. The book discusses the role of genres in media and cultural theory as a configuration of media artifacts that share specific aesthetic characteristics. It also reflects genre as a concept of categorization of media artifacts with which the latter can be analyzed under terms depending on a specific historical situation or cultural context. A special focus is placed on trans-media perspectives. Even as genres develop their own traditions within one medium, they reach beyond a media-specific horizon, necessitating a double perspective that considers the distinct recourse to genre within a medium as well as the trans-media circulation and adaption of genres.
About the author
Ivo Ritzer is a professor of media studies at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. He has given invited talks all over the world and has published a large number of essays, monographs, and edited volumes with topics such as media aesthetics, media philosophy, and media archaeology. His most recent publications include Key Works in Media Studies (2020), Politics of the Popular: Media – Culture – Theory (2019), Media Theory of Globalization (2018), and Media Dispositives (2018).
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