Patti - Writing about screen media

Writing About Screen Media presents strategies for writing about a broad range of media objects including film, television, social media, advertising, video games, mobile media, music videos, and digital media in an equally broad range of formats.

The books case studies showcase media studies geographical and industrial breadth, with essays covering topics as varied as: Brazilian telenovelas, K-pop music videos, Bombay cinema credit sequences, global streaming services, film festivals, archives, and more. With the expertise of over forty esteemed media scholars, the collection combines personal reflections about writing with practical advice. Writing About Screen Media reflects the diversity of screen media criticism and encourages both beginning and established writers to experiment with content and form.

Through its unprecedented scope, this volume will engage not only those who may be writing about film and other screen media for the first time but also accomplished writers who are interested in exploring new screen media objects, new approaches to writing about media, and new formats for critical expression.

Lisa Patti is Associate Professor in the Media and Society Program at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. She is co-author (with Glyn Davis, Kay Dickinson, and Amy Villarejo) of Film Studies: A Global Introduction (2015) and co-editor (with Tijana Mamula) of The Multilingual Screen: New Reflections on Cinema and Linguistic Difference (2016).

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Names: Patti, Lisa, editor.

Title: Writing about screen media / edited by Lisa Patti.

Description: London ; New York : Routledge, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index. |

Identifiers: LCCN 2019012236 (print) | LCCN 2019018917 (ebook) | ISBN 9780815393924 (ebook) | ISBN 9780815393511 | ISBN 9780815393511(hardback :alk. paper) | ISBN 9780815393528(paperback :alk. paper) | ISBN 9780815393924(ebk)

Subjects: LCSH: Mass media criticism.

Classification: LCC P96.C76 (ebook) | LCC P96.C76 W75 2019 (print) | DDC 302.23--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019012236

ISBN: 978-0-8153-9351-1 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-8153-9352-8 (pbk)

ISBN: 978-0-8153-9392-4 (ebk)

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Jaimie Baron is an Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Alberta. Her first book, The Archive Effect: Found Footage and the Audiovisual Experience of History, was published in 2014. She is currently working on a new book entitled Misuse: The Ethics of Audiovisual Appropriation in the Digital Era. She is the founder, director, and co-curator of the Festival of (In)appropriation, a yearly international festival of short experimental found footage films and videos. She is also a co-founder of Docalogue, an online space for scholars and filmmakers to engage in conversations about contemporary documentary, soon to also be a book series published by Routledge Press.

Christine Becker is an Associate Professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame specializing in film and television history and critical analysis. Her book Its the Pictures That Got Small: Hollywood Film Stars on 1950s Television (Wesleyan University Press, 2009) won the 2011 IAMHIST Michael Nelson Prize for a Work in Media and History. She is currently working on a research project exploring issues of cultural taste in contemporary American and British television. She is also a co-host and co-producer of Aca-Media, the official podcast for the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.

Lauren S. Berliner is an Associate Professor at University of Washington Bothell where she teaches in the Media & Communication and Cultural Studies programs. She is the author of Producing Queer Youth: The Paradox of Digital Media Empowerment (Routledge, 2018) and co-editor (with Ron Krabill) of Feminist Interventions in Participatory Media: Pedagogy, Publics, Practice (Routledge, 2018). She is also a co-curator of The Festival of (In)Appropriation, an annual showcase of experimental films.

Nilanjana Bhattacharjya is an Honors Faculty Fellow and Senior Lecturer at Barrett, the Honors College at Arizona State University in Tempe. Her research focuses on the relationship between music and narrative in popular Hindi films, as well as on how music helps define identity in South Asian diasporic locations. Her writing has appeared in the journals Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media, South Asian Popular Culture, Asian Music, and South Asian History and Culture, as well as in the edited volumes From Bombay to Bollywood: Tracking Cinematic and Musical Tours (Minnesota, 2008) and South Asian Transnationalisms: Cultural Exchange in the Twentieth Century (Routledge, 2012).

Bronwyn Coate is a cultural economist and Senior Lecturer in the School of Economics, Finance and Marketing at RMIT University with expertise in the economic analysis of the arts and creative industries. She applies a range of economic and econometric techniques to cultural data and works with multidisciplinary teams to develop innovative approaches and techniques that are data driven and empirically based. Bronwyn is a member of the Kinomatics Project.

Beth Corzo-Duchardt holds a PhD in Screen Cultures from Northwestern University and has taught media studies and gender studies courses at Northwestern University, DePaul University, Muhlenberg College, and Lafayette College. She is currently working on two book projects related to screen media. The first, Primal Screen: Primitivism and American Silent Film Spectatorship, investigates how popular ideas about the early cinemas universal appeal were shaped by colonialist and primitivist discourses. The second is a media history of outdoor advertising in North America that aims to provide crucial historical context for understanding contemporary multi-media outdoor landscapes.

Lauren McLeod Cramer is an Assistant Professor in the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. Her current research project, A Hip-Hop Joint: The Architecture of Blackness, uses architectural design to theorize about hip-hops joints, the points of articulation between the aesthetics of Blackness and visual culture. Lauren is a founding member of