Since the 1990s, the knowledge, culture, and entertainment industries have found themselves experimenting, not altogether voluntarily, with communicating complex information across multiple media platforms. Against a backdrop of competing national priorities, changing technologies, globalization, and academic capitalism, these industries have sought to reach increasingly differentiated local audiences, even as distributed production practices have made the lack of authorial control increasingly obvious. As Katie King describes in Networked Reenactments, science-styled television—such as the Secrets of Lost Empires series shown on the PBS program Nova—demonstrates how new technical and collaborative skills are honed by television producers, curators, hobbyists, fans, and even scholars. Examining how transmedia storytelling is produced across platforms such as television and the web, she analyzes what this all means for the humanities. What sort of knowledge projects take up these skills, attending to grain of detail, evoking affective intensities, and zooming in and out, representing multiple scales, as well as many different perspectives? And what might this mean for feminist transdisciplinary work, or something sometimes called the posthumanities?
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In this feminist cultural study of reenactments, Katie King traces the development of a new kind of transmedia storytelling during the 1990s, as a response to the increasing difficulty of reaching large audiences at a time where entertainment media and knowledge production were both being restructured.
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Foreword / Donna Haraway ix Preface. What Are Reenactments in This Book? xv Acknowledgments xix Introduction. A Thick Description amid Authorships, Audiences, and Agencies in the Nineties 1 1. Nationalities, Sexualities, and Global TV: Highlander, Xena, and Meanings of European Union 21 2. Science in American Life: Among the Culture Warriors 59 3. TV and the Web Come Together 129 4. Scholars and Intellectual Entrepreneurs 203 Conclusion. Toward a Feminist Transdisciplinary Posthumanities 273 Notes 301 Bibliography 335 Index 351
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“King... here offers a challenging, meandering take on feminist transdisciplinary posthumanities through the lens of networked reenactment--what one could think of as transmedia storytelling, experiments in communication, and/or epistemological melodramas.... Recommended.” - S.E. Vie, CHOICE Magazine
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In this feminist cultural study of reenactments, Katie King traces the development of a new kind of transmedia storytelling during the 1990s, as a response to the increasing difficulty of reaching large audiences at a time where entertainment media and knowledge production were both being restructured. King ties this development to political and economic changes that have come with globalization and the affordances that have come from new media. In a series of chapters addressing specific forms - from television shows through museum exhibits to new media games and representation - she follows the shape of reenactments as they offer increasing affective and imaginative possibilities.
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ISBN
9780822350545
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2012-01-05
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Duke University Press
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685 gr
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P, 06
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Engelsk
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Biographical note

Katie King is Associate Professor of Women’s Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the author of Theory in Its Feminist Travels: Conversations in U.S. Women’s Movements.