Richard Grusin Books

The book explores the role of national parks in shaping American national identity following the Civil War. It delves into the historical context and cultural implications of these parks, examining how their establishment contributed to a collective sense of identity and purpose in a post-war society. Through this investigation, the author highlights the interplay between nature, nationalism, and the evolving narrative of America during this transformative period.

A new framework for considering how all media constantly borrow from and refashion other media. Media critics remain captivated by the modernist myth of the new: they assume that digital technologies such as the World Wide Web, virtual reality, and computer graphics must divorce themselves from earlier media for a new set of aesthetic and cultural principles. In this richly illustrated study, Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin offer a theory of mediation for our digital age that challenges this assumption. They argue that new visual media achieve their cultural significance precisely by paying homage to, rivaling, and refashioning such earlier media as perspective painting, photography, film, and television. They call this process of refashioning "remediation," and they note that earlier media have also refashioned one another: photography remediated painting, film remediated stage production and photography, and television remediated film, vaudeville, and radio.