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“They Took to the Sea”
The sea and maritime spaces have long been neglected in the field of Jewish studies despite their relevance in the context of Jewish religious texts and historical narratives. The images of Noah’s arche, king Salomon’s maritime activities or the miracle of the parting of the Red Sea immediately come into mind, however, only illustrate a few aspects of Jewish maritime activities. Consequently, the relations of Jews and the sea has to be seen in a much broader spatial and temporal framework in order to understand the overall importance of maritime spaces in Jewish history and culture. Almost sixty years after Samuel Tolkowsky’s pivotal study on maritime Jewish history and culture and the...
Decolonizing Communication Studies
This volume examines the effects of the decolonization of communication studies. It shows that the discipline has undergone a rapid paradigm shift since the launching of the Ferment in the Field special edition of the Journal of Communication, in which scholars were called upon to rethink the field because of the crisis it was facing.
Understanding Engagement in Transmedia Culture
This book offers a new, interdisciplinary model for understanding audience engagement as a type of behaviour, a form of response and a cost to audiences that, combined, offer value to the screen industries. Audience ‘engagement’ has become the key priority of the screen industries. Understanding Engagement in Transmedia Culture explicitly asks what audiences and screen practitioners mean when they say content is ‘engaging’ and uses audience focus groups and practitioner interviews to offer a model for understanding the relationship between the screen industry, the content it produces and its audiences. In particular, the model addresses engagement within transmedia culture. As digita...
Die andere Szene
Was will der Film (das Kino) vom Theater? Was suchen Dokumentarfilmer in der Beobachtung von Theaterproben und -projekten, von Aufführungen und Auftritten und dem, was zwischen den Auftritten stattfindet? Wie an vielen Schauplätzen, kommt das Dokumentarkino auch im Theater verspätet an; aber das obsessive Interesse, das es den Szenarien der Theaterarbeit entgegenbringt, ist kaum geringer als das des Erzählkinos, das sich bereits ein halbes Jahrhundert früher auf der Backstage und in Proberäumen eingerichtet hat. Dem Theater als Gegenstand der ethnografisch, soziologisch, pädagogisch ausgerichteten Beobachtung, als Test- und Übertragungsszenario, als utopisches Projekt der 'anderen', ...
