Citational Media

Counter-Archives and Technology in Contemporary Visual Culture

Annie Ring, Lucy Bollington

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English

Legenda
07 April 2025

Documentary movies & films; Television; Literature: history & criticism

Series: Visual Culture

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Citational Media foregrounds the potential of a body of counter-archival practices that have emerged in contem-porary visual media outside the traditional space of the cinema. Each chapter focuses on examples of visual or performance culture that appropriate, re-use and so progressively 'archive' other media or footage, as they critique dominant ideologies in an age of new technologies and ongoing global turbulence. The resulting case studies, drawn from the late twentieth century to the present day, range from critical re-uses of television footage that undercut the medium's original meanings, to popular videos screened on social media platforms, that performatively cite smart technologies and their software interfaces. Such citational media practices, while ambivalent in their meanings, have the potential to recast narratives and archives that have governed - and if left unquestioned, risk further constricting and exploiting - contemporary life.

Annie Ring is Associate Professor of German and Film and Lucy Bollington is Lecturer in Comparative Literature and Film. Both are based in the School of European Languages, Culture and Society and the Centre for Multidisciplinary and Intercultural Inquiry, University College London.

Edited by: Annie Ring, Lucy Bollington
Imprint: Legenda
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 7
Dimensions: Height: 244mm, Width: 170mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 739g
ISBN: 9781839542022
ISBN 10: 1839542020
Series: Visual Culture
Pages: 242
Publication Date: 07 April 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active