Poetic Acts & New MediaPoetic Acts & New Media advances the fields of literary and new media studies by clarifying boundaries between competing genres and media through the creation of a new artistic genre, "media poetry." This aesthetic mode of expression/becoming seeks to transform mass culture (our codes of communication) by self-consciously acknowledging how textual, audio, and/or visual signs are constructed according to their simulation and not their representation. This study draws heavily upon literary media theories that intersect with Gilles Deleuze's philosophy of 'Sense' as a simulated power of sensory transformations. Media poetry becomes a complex power of 'Sense' by blending conventional mass-media codes with poetic simulations that provide alternative forms of creating meaning. Poetic Acts & New Media specifically examines the works of several poets that exemplify this multi-sensory approach to printed-text poetry, especially: -Langston Hughes -Tony Medina -David Wojahn -John Kinsella -David Trinidad. It also analyzes several contemporary films that embody the multi-modal logic of media poetry: -David Lynch's Mullholland Drive -Cameron Crowe's Vanilla Sky -Spike Jonze's Being John Malkovich. In addition, this study interprets two influential primetime TV shows as exemplars of media poetry: Twin Peaks and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. All media poetry, regardless of genre or medium, allows readers/viewers to envision "reality production" as a rewriteable and poetic enterprise that can productively remediate any transparent abstraction or common-sense realism. |
Contents
1 Media Poetry Vs LANGUAGE Poetry | 3 |
LANGUAGE Poetry Its Discontents | 8 |
And Now Back to Media Poetry | 18 |
I Didnt Know Why I Was So Fascinated by Murder | 27 |
From Text to Contexts | 43 |
2 A Hollywood of Poetry | 47 |
Media Culture as Metaphor | 50 |
Here There Over the Rainbow | 58 |
Twin Peaks Ironicallycliched Universe | 102 |
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Deleuze s Becomingart | 107 |
Magic as a Poetic Language | 112 |
Buffys Noble Ethics | 116 |
Willow Emotional Control | 133 |
Yeah Buffy What Are We Gonna Do Now? | 143 |
The Fine Art of Convergence | 145 |
John Kinsella s TV | 148 |
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