Media encounters and media theories

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Jürgen E. Müller: Media Encounters - An Introduction explores various dimensions of intermediality and its implications across different media forms. The first section delves into media theories, featuring contributions that discuss literacy in intermedial contexts, philosophical underpinnings of mediality, and the methodological aspects of intermediality. It also examines the relationship between digital media and Benjamin's concept of aura, alongside meta-semiotic approaches in the digital age. The second section presents paradigmatic studies on media interactions within audiovisual and digital realms, analyzing cultural identities through the lens of filmmakers like Wim Wenders, and comparing German and Korean cinema. It further investigates the interplay of myth, media, and postmodern drama, alongside the relationship between music, gaze, and dance in Benjamin Britten's opera, and the textual and visual dimensions in Elfriede Jelinek's novel and Michael Haneke's film adaptation. The final section addresses historiographical perspectives on media encounters, including the social functions of television, cinematic interpretations of Shakespeare, and the historicization of meaning within a multimediaverse. It also explores French-American media interactions, Brazilian cultural transmediation, nineteenth-century optical recreations, and the evolution of representations of popular Paris. This comprehensive work offers valuabl