Course convenor
Katalin Orban
Course content
This course introduces students to some significant forms of media. With an eye to both history and theory, we probe the mysteries of what exactly constitutes the bookness of the book, the photographness of the photograph and the televisuality of television, and explore each of them in their broader socio-cultural context. Based on readings, case studies, and lecture material, we discuss the tremendous transformations all three are undergoing in today’s era of digitization and media convergence.
Indicative reading
Chartier, Roger. 2004. Métamorphoses du livre (Les). Ebook. http://editionsdelabibliotheque.fr/livre/index.cfm?GCOI=84240100128080&fa=complements
Hesse, Carla. 1996. Books in Time. In The Future of the Book, ed. Geoffrey Nunberg. Berkeley: University of Califronia Press. 21-36.
Petrucci, Armando. 2003. Reading to read: a future for reading. In A history of reading in the West. Eds. Guglielmo Cavallo and Roger Chartier; trans. Lydia G. Cochrane. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P.
Sontag, Susan. On Photography. 1977. New York: Farrar, Straus.
Flusser, Vilém. 2000. Towards a philosophy of photography. London: Reaktion.
Bourdieu, Pierre, 1998. On Television. New York: The New Press.
Ellis, John. 1982. Visible Fictions: Cinema, Television, Video. London: Routledge.
Caldwell, John. 2004. Convergence Television. In Television after TV. Durham: Duke UP.