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6 April, 2022

Deep Mediations: Thinking Space in Cinema and Digital Cultures

Deep Mediations: Thinking Space in Cinema and Digital Cultures
6 April, 2022

Edited by Karen Redrobe and Jeff Scheible. University of Minnesota Press, 2021

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Book description:

The preoccupation with “depth” and its relevance to cinema and media studies

For decades the concept of depth has been central to critical thinking in numerous humanities-based disciplines, legitimizing certain modes of inquiry over others. Deep Mediations examines why and how this is, as scholars today navigate the legacy of depth models of thought and vision, particularly in light of the “surface turn” and as these models impinge on the realms of cinema and media studies.

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