The Screenic Image: Between Verticality and Horizontality, Viewing and Touching, Displaying and Playing

Strauven, Wanda

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“…An adequate example in this respect may be cited from David Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars (2014): in a scene Agatha, the evil-doer incognito who is working as a personal assistant to Hollywood star Havana Segrand, arrives at her employer's home. In the luxurious, English country-style kitchen the "vertical viewing dispositif" (Strauven 2016: 144) stands out through its minimalist, technologically up-to-date outlook, while showing a live television talk show in which Havana repeats the story of her long-dead actress mother, with essentially no new piece of information added to what has been presented up to now in the filmic diegesis unfolding on the cinematic screen. However, the superficial flatness of the television talk-show as mediated through this decor screen is in a Genettian 'thematic contrast' to Havana, the actress' inner torments regarding her abusive mother, and, in addition indexing the hardships of her getting the role about which she is interviewed.…”

Section: Decor Screensmentioning

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Electronic Screens in Film Diegesis: Modality Modes and Qualifying Aspects of a Formation Enhanced by the Post-digital Era

Virginás

2020

Beyond Media Borders, Volume 1

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The proliferation of television screens, video monitors and computer or mobile screens in film diegetic worlds is an apparently simple numeric increase of certain objects within the filmed space, conditioned by, and thus mirroring, contemporary technological changes. However, one should consider this intermediary screenic formation as a complex and versatile audiovisual and narrative method that could have emerged in this frequency only in our current post-digital era. This chapter argues that fine-tuning the model of media functioning presented in Elleström’s “The Modalities of Media” for this specific phenomenon enables a more precise description of the process along which the three presemiotic media modalities morph into the semiotic one. By presenting a systematic description of electronic screens in film diegetic worlds, and a general assessment of the intermedial processes at work, the chapter examines Euro-American films influenced by the video, respectively, the digital era and technology.

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Section: Decor Screensmentioning

confidence: 99%

Electronic Screens in Film Diegesis: Modality Modes and Qualifying Aspects of a Formation Enhanced by the Post-digital Era

Virginás

2020

Beyond Media Borders, Volume 1

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Suture Goes Meta: Desktop Documentary and its Narrativization of Screen-Mediated Experience

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Lee

2022

Quarterly Review of Film and Video

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Screenness in Google Maps navigation: An agential realist analysis

Maithani

2024

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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This article articulates screenness to comprehend the agency of screens in the postmedia condition. Being a common element in different kinds of media, screens contribute towards medial collaboration and relationality in postmedia where they do much more than display. Screenness, understood in Karen Barad’s agential realist framework, is performative and contingent upon the relations of the postmedia assemblage, considered here as an arrangement of technical, medial and human components brought together by the transferability and exchange across different media. The unstable, ever-changing relations in postmedia assemblages help in understanding the various operations of screens in image-making, display and dissemination practices. If screens can be understood in and through practices in which they emerge then their agency too is not static but changes as per the relations screens are in. To demonstrate the performative agency of screens – screenness – I will discuss intra-actions that can be gleaned via the activity of navigation using Google Maps application on a smartphone.

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The Screenic Image: Between Verticality and Horizontality, Viewing and Touching, Displaying and Playing

Cited by 8 publications

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Electronic Screens in Film Diegesis: Modality Modes and Qualifying Aspects of a Formation Enhanced by the Post-digital Era

Electronic Screens in Film Diegesis: Modality Modes and Qualifying Aspects of a Formation Enhanced by the Post-digital Era

Suture Goes Meta: Desktop Documentary and its Narrativization of Screen-Mediated Experience

Screenness in Google Maps navigation: An agential realist analysis

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