Patrick Vonderau Knihy

YouTube has come to epitomize the possibilities of digital culture. With more than seventy million unique users a month and approximately eighty million videos online, this brand-name video distribution platform holds the richest repository of popular culture on the Internet. As the fastest growing site in the history of the Web, YouTube promises endless new opportunities for amateur video, political campaigning, entertainment formats, and viral marketing—a clip culture that has seemed to outpace both cinema and television.The YouTube Reader is the first full-length book to explore YouTube as an industry, archive, and cultural form. This remarkable volume brings together renowned film and media scholars to debate the problems and potential of "broadcasting yourself." The YouTube Reader takes on claims of newness, immediacy, and popularity with sytematic and theoretically informed arguments, offering a closer look at the available texts on YouTube and the policies and norms that govern their access and use.Contributors include Christopher Anderson, Thomas Elsaesser, Richard Grusin, Bernard Stiegler, Toby Miller, Lisa Parks, William Uricchio, and Janet Wasko.

Focusing on the evolution of motion picture advertising, this book explores its significant influence on European visual culture since the late 19th century. It examines how moving image advertisements have shaped consumer experiences and societal ideals, transcending traditional boundaries of medium and geography. By analyzing products, exhibition methods, production practices, and the role of ad agencies, it offers innovative historical and theoretical insights into the audiovisual history of advertising and its impact on the concept of a 'good life.'

1924 kam Greta Garbo aus Stockholm nach Berlin, um in dem Großfilm DIE ODALISKE VON SMOLNY eine Adelsdame zu spielen, die in den Wirren der Russischen Revolution in einen türkischen Harem gerät. Kaum weniger spektakulär als der Plot dieses Films war der Skandal, der sich um die Produktion des schwedischen Stars drehte und Garbos deutsche Karriere vorzeitig beendete. Bilder vom Norden erzählt die Geschichte der spannungsvollen Beziehung zweier Filmnationen, die Weltgeltung beanspruchten und mehr als einmal miteinander in Konflikt gerieten. Eine Geschichte wechselseitigen Austausches, einseitiger Vorteilsnahmen, von Rasseideologien, Kassenhits, Film-Betrügern und nordischen Schwärmereien.