Epistolary Entanglements in Film, Media and the Visual Arts

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Edited by Teri Higgins, Catherine Fowler, University of Otago, New Zealand

Publisher:: Amsterdam University Press
Online publication date:: June 2023
Print publication year:: 2023
Online ISBN:: 9789048555116
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048555116

Series:: Film Culture in Transition
Subjects:: Film, Media, Mass Communication, Media, Mass Communication

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This collection departs from the observation that online forms of communication - the email, blog, text message, tweet - are actually haunted by old epistolary forms: the letter and the diary. By examining the omnipresence of writing across a variety of media, the collection adds the category of Epistolary Screens to genres of self-expression, both literary (letters, diaries, auto-biographies) and screenic (romance dramas, intercultural cinema, essay films, artists' videos and online media). The category Epistolary encapsulates an increasingly paradoxical relation between writing and the self: first, it describes selves that are written in graphic detail via letters, diaries, blogs, texts, emails and tweets; second, it acknowledges that absence complicates communication, bringing people together in an entangled rather than ordered way. The collection concerns itself with the changing visual/textual texture of screen media and examines what is at stake for our understanding of self-expression when it takes Epistolary forms.

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Epistolary Entanglements in Film, Media and the Visual Arts

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Frontmatter
pp 1-4

Table of Contents
pp 5-6

Acknowledgements
pp 7-8

Doing (Audio-Visual) Things with Words – From Epistolary Intent to Epistolary Entanglements: An Introduction
pp 9-38

1 - Performance and Power : The Letter as an Expression of Masculinity in Game of Thrones
pp 39-54

2 - ‘My dearest little girl, I just got your letter and I hope that you will continue to write to me often’: Epistolary Listening in News from Home (Chantal Akerman, 1976)
pp 55-70

3 - Dead Letters: Epistolary Hauntology and the Speed of Light in Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas, 2016)
pp 71-88

4 - Attention to Detail: Epistolary Forms in New Melodrama
pp 89-104

5 - The Spiritual Intimacies of The Red Hand Files: How Long Will I Be Alone?
pp 105-124

6 - Video Authenticity and Epistolary Self-Expression in Letter to America (Kira Muratova, 1999)
pp 125-138

7 - Epistolary Affect and Romance Scams: Letter from an Unknown Woman
pp 139-156

8 - Delivering Posthumous Messages : Katherine Mansfield and Letters in the Literary Biopic Leave All Fair (John Reid, 1985)
pp 157-172

9 - The Interactive Letter : Co-Authorship and Interactive Media in Emily Short’s First Draft of the Revolution
pp 173-190

10 - Epistolary Distance and Reciprocity in José Luis Guerín and Jonas Mekas’s Filmed Correspondences
pp 191-206

11 - Instagram and the Diary : The Case of Amalia Ulman’s Excellences & Perfections (2014)
pp 207-224

12 - Civil War Epistolary and the Hollywood War Film
pp 225-240

13 - Epistolarity and Decolonial Aesthetics in Carola Grahn’s Look Who’s Talking (2016)
pp 241-258

14 - Epistolary Relays in Fatih Akin’s Auf der anderen Seite (On the Other Side/On the Edge of Heaven) (2007)
pp 259-274

Index
pp 275-279

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