Getting Under the Skin
Body and Media Theory
Published on 17. February 2006
Book
Hardback
232 pages
978-0-262-23247-0 (ISBN)
Description
Tracing the evolution of contemporary body discourse Getting Under the Skin analyzes the tension between a fragmented and holistic body concept in performance art, popular culture, new media arts, and architecture.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass.
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
53 illus.; 53 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 238 mm
Width: 184 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
629 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-262-23247-0 (9780262232470)
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Bernadette Wegenstein is Research Professor in the Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures at Johns Hopkins University, where she also directs the Center for Advanced Media Studies. The author of Getting Under the Skin: Body and Media Theory (MIT Press, 2006), she is also a documentary filmmaker.