Getting Under the Skin - Body and Media Theory

Informationen zum Autor Bernadette Wegenstein is Research Professor in the Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures at Johns Hopkins University! where she also directs the Center for Advanced Media Studies. The author of Getting Under the Skin: Body and Media Theory (MIT Press! 2006)! she is also a documentary filmmaker. Klappentext Tracing the evolution of contemporary body discourse Getting Under the Skin analyzes the tension between a fragmented and holistic body concept in performance art, popular culture, new media arts, and architecture. Zusammenfassung Tracing the evolution of contemporary body discourse Getting Under the Skin analyzes the tension between a fragmented and holistic body concept in performance art! popular culture! new media arts! and architecture.

About the author

Bernadette Wegenstein is Research Professor in the Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures at Johns Hopkins University, where she also directs the Center for Advanced Media Studies. The author of Getting Under the Skin: Body and Media Theory (MIT Press, 2006), she is also a documentary filmmaker.

Product details

• Authors: Bernadette Wegenstein, Bernadette (Visiting Associate Profess Wegenstein, Bernadette (Visiting Associate Professor Wegenstein
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.02.2006
• EAN: 9780262232470
• ISBN: 978-0-262-23247-0
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Series: The MIT Press; The MIT Press
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science