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Supercut Politics: Movie Trailers as Templates for Political Advertising

A talk by Vinzenz Hediger, Professor, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany   Across the political spectrum and ranging from professionally produced campaign ads to grass-roots style activist videos, the movie trailer has become a template for political advertising. Based on an historical analysis of movie trailers, this presentation will discuss a number of current examples of […]

Playback: Genealogies of Interactivity Symposium

Use, re-use, engagement, creation, distraction, immersion, seduction, play, critique—media and culture consist of practices that shape experience, meaning, and communities. The basic dynamism of media present and past, though, is not always accommodated in our critical, theoretical, and scholarly approaches. We need critical explorations that recognize and assess media and their full cultural complexities in […]