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Author:   Sara Pesce (University of Bologna, Italy) ,  Paolo Noto (University of Bologna, Italy)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.650kg
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9781138857926

ISBN 10:   1138857920
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   07 June 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"Introduction: The Politics of Ephemeral Digital Media: Permanence and Obsolescence in Paratexts Sara Pesce and Paolo Noto Part I: Understanding ""short shelf-life"" Media 1. Short Shelf-Life Media: Ephemeral Digital Practices and the Contemporary Dream of Permanence Sara Pesce 2. The Politics of Paratextual Ephemeralia Jonathan Gray 3. Paratext between Time and Space in Digital Media Giulio Lughi 4. Beyond the Threshold: Textual Transcendence and Transmedia Narratives Valentina Re Part II: Screen Time and Memory 5. Googling Sherlock Holmes: Popular Memory, Plaforms, Protocols and Paratexts Roberta Pearson 6. Nostalgia for the Future: How TRON Legacy’s Paratextual Campaign Rebooted the Franchise Kim Walden 7. Hoaxing the Media: 1920s Film Ballyhoo and an Archaeology of Presence Fabrice Lyczba 8. Sound Memories: ""Talker Remakes,"" Paratexts, and Cinematic (Self-)Historicization Kathleen Loock 9. Paratexts from Cinephilia to Mediaphilia (through Ludification Culture) Roy Menarini and Lucia Tralli Part III: Mutant Paratexts: Communication, Promotion, Gameplay, Fandom 10. Interactivity and the Modalities of Textual-Hacking: From the BIble to Algorithmically Generated Stories William Uricchio 11. One Does Not Simply Walk Away from the Past: The Dynamics of Memory, Spreadability and Retrobranting in the Van Der Memes Case Paolo Brembilla 12. ""You Had to Be There:"" Alternate Reality Games and Multiple Durational Temporalities Stephanie James 13. The TV Recap: Knowledge, Memory and Complex Narrative Orientation Claudio Bisoni 14. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo: Paratexts and Temporality in a Flexible World Marta Boni 15. TV Series, Convergence Culture and the Davy Crockett Hat Guglielmo Pescatore and Veronica Innocenti"

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Sara Pesce teaches film history and performance studies at the University of Bologna. She’s published on the historical roots of Hollywood, cultural memory, and performance. She wrote books on Hollywood Jewish founders (Dietro lo schermo, 2005), on WWII memory in Italian film (Memoria e Immaginario, 2008), on Laurence Olivier (Laurence Olivier nei film, 2012). Paolo Noto is Lecturer in film history at the University of Bologna. He is one of the editors in chief of L'avventura. Internation Journal of Italian Film and Media Landscapes and the secretary of the open access journal SERIES (series.unibo.it). He has authored two books, dedicated to the Italian neorealism (Il cinema neorealista, with Francesco Pitassio, 2010) and to the application of genre theory to the Italian post-war cinema (Dal bozzetto ai generi, 2011).

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