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More than Fifteen Minutes of Fame

The Changing Face of Screen Performance

by Ken Miller (Author)
©2013 Thesis 311 Pages
Series: Film Cultures, Volume 6

Summary

More than Fifteen Minutes of Fame tracks screen performance’s trajectory from dominant discourses of realism and authenticity towards increasingly acute degrees of self-referentiality and self-reflexivity. Exploring the symbiotic relationship between changing forms of onscreen representation and our shifting status as social subjects, the book provides an original perspective through international examples from cinema, experimental production, documentary, television, and the burgeoning landscape of online screen performance. In an emerging culture of participatory media, the creation of a screen-based presence for our own performances of identity has become a currency through which we validate ourselves as subjects of the contemporary, hyper-mediatized world. In this post-dramatic, post-Warhol climate, the author’s contention is that we are becoming increasingly wedded to screen media – not just as consumers but as producers and performers.

Details

Pages
311
Publication Year
2013
ISBN (ePUB)
9783034323055
ISBN (MOBI)
9783034323062
ISBN (PDF)
9783035105681
ISBN (Softcover)
9783034312196
DOI
10.3726/978-3-0351-0568-1
Language
English
Publication date
2013 (July)
Keywords
realism authenticity self-reflexivity self-referentiality
Published
Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2013. 313 pp.

Biographical notes

Ken Miller (Author)

Ken Miller lectures in film, television and screen arts at Curtin University in Western Australia. He has a background in film and television directing and producing, and his research interests include performances across a range of media.

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