Networked Reenactments
Stories Transdisciplinary Knowledges Tell
1st Edition
Published on 5. January 2012
387 pages
978-0-8223-9446-4 (ISBN)
Description
In this feminist cultural study of reenactments, Katie King traces the development of a new kind of transmedia storytelling during the 1990s, as a response to the increasing difficulty of reaching large audiences at a time where entertainment media and knowledge production were both being restructured.
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Katie King is Associate Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the author of Theory in Its Feminist Travels: Conversations in U.S. Women's Movements.
Content
Foreword / Donna Haraway ix
Preface. What Are Reenactments in This Book? xv
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction. A Thick Description amid Authorships, Audiences, and Agencies in the Nineties 1
1. Nationalities, Sexualities, and Global TV: Highlander, Xena, and Meanings of European Union 21
2. Science in American Life: Among the Culture Warriors 59
3. TV and the Web Come Together 129
4. Scholars and Intellectual Entrepreneurs 203
Conclusion. Toward a Feminist Transdisciplinary Posthumanities 273
Notes 301
Bibliography 335
Index 351
Preface. What Are Reenactments in This Book? xv
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction. A Thick Description amid Authorships, Audiences, and Agencies in the Nineties 1
1. Nationalities, Sexualities, and Global TV: Highlander, Xena, and Meanings of European Union 21
2. Science in American Life: Among the Culture Warriors 59
3. TV and the Web Come Together 129
4. Scholars and Intellectual Entrepreneurs 203
Conclusion. Toward a Feminist Transdisciplinary Posthumanities 273
Notes 301
Bibliography 335
Index 351
