This collection departs from the observation that online forms of communication—the email, blog, text message, tweet—are actually haunted by old epistolary forms: the letter and the diary. By examining the omnipresence of writing across a variety of media, the collection adds the category of Epistolary Screens to genres of self-expression, both literary (letters, diaries, auto-biographies) and screenic (romance dramas, intercultural cinema, essay films, artists’ videos and online media). The category Epistolary encapsulates an increasingly paradoxical relation between writing and the self: first, it describes selves that are written in graphic detail via letters, diaries, blogs, texts, emails and tweets; second, it acknowledges that absence complicates communication, bringing people together in an entangled rather than ordered way. The collection concerns itself with the changing visual/textual texture of screen media and examines what is at stake for our understanding of self-expression when it takes Epistolary forms.
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Doing (Audio-Visual) Things with Words – From Epistolary Intent to Epistolary Entanglements: An Introduction
- Teri Higgins and Catherine Fowler
- 1. Performance and Power: The Letter as an Expression of Masculinity in Game of Thrones
- 2. ‘My dearest little girl, I just got your letter and I hope that you will continue to write to me often’
- Epistolary Listening in News from Home (Chantal Akerman, 1976)
- 3. Dead Letters
- Epistolary Hauntology and the Speed of Light in Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas, 2016)
- 4. Attention to Detail: Epistolary Forms in New Melodrama
- 5. The Spiritual Intimacies of The Red Hand Files: How Long Will I Be Alone?
- 6. Video Authenticity and Epistolary Self-Expression in Letter to America (Kira Muratova, 1999)
- 7. Epistolary Affect and Romance Scams: Letter from an Unknown Woman
- 8. Delivering Posthumous Messages: Katherine Mansfield and Letters in the Literary Biopic Leave All Fair (John Reid, 1985)
- 9. The Interactive Letter: Co-Authorship and Interactive Media in Emily Short’s First Draft of the Revolution
- 10. Epistolary Distance and Reciprocity in José Luis Guerín and Jonas Mekas’s Filmed Correspondences
- 11. Instagram and the Diary: The Case of Amalia Ulman’s Excellences & Perfections (2014)
- 12. Civil War Epistolary and the Hollywood War Film
- 13. Epistolarity and Decolonial Aesthetics in Carola Grahn’s Look Who’s Talking (2016)
- 14. Epistolary Relays in Fatih Akin’s Auf der anderen Seite (On the Other Side/On the Edge of Heaven) (2007)
- Index
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