Medienwissenschaft

The Blind Man: A Phantasmography examines the complicated forces of perception, imagination, and phantasms of encounter in the contemporary world. In considering photographs he took while he was trav …

Media are poetic forces. They produce and reveal worlds, representing them to our senses and connecting them to our lives. While the poetic powers of media are perceptual, symbolic, social and techni …

In the history of broadcasting and education, the evening of May 25th, 1953 was highly significant-KUHT-TV in Houston, Texas became the first non-commercial, education (now called public television) …

A revised and expanded new edition of Lucy Sante’s classic history of the real-photo postcard, with 130 images and a new afterword. In rural America at the beginning of the twentieth century, the wor …

Many fans and insiders alike have never heard of Bill Hume, Bailin‘ Wire Bill, Abe Martin, AWOL Wally, the Texas History Movies, or the Weatherbird at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. And many insiders d …

One of the most distinctive voices in mainstream comics since the 1970s, Howard Chaykin (b. 1950) has earned a reputation as a visionary formal innovator and a compelling storyteller whose comics off …

Brian Evenson delves deeply into the pages of Chester Brown’s (Louis Riel, Paying for It) seminal comic book Yummy Fur. Brian’s comics archaeology excavates the discarded fragments of Brown’s masterp …

WINNER OF THE 2022 EISNER AWARD FOR BEST COMICS-RELATED BOOK ‚Magnificently marvellous‘ Junot Diaz ‚An account of how a motley gang of accidental collaborators created a vernacular mythology out of t …

Computer games are one of the most exciting and rapidly evolving media of our time. Revenues from console and computer games have now overtaken those from Hollywood movies; and online gaming is one o …

Written for a broad audience and grounded in cutting-edge, contemporary scholarship, this volume addresses some of the key questions asked about pornography today. What is it? For whom is it produced …