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  "textContent": "Saper - Of Spectacularization - JCRT 4.2 \n\nOf Spectacularization: Writing New Media Theory\n\nCraig J. Saper  \nUniversity of Central Florida\n\n  \n\nTheories and histories of modern spectacles and media-inundated society have recently shifted from ideological analyses (i.e., analyses that see through an illusory spectacle world to manipulative apparatuses of social control) to synthetic analyses that use spectacles' structure as a basis, or lens, for writing. The former approach read media as texts. These textual theories created a tidy methodology for critics to use in reading and deciphering sounds and images as codes for sociopolitical meanings.\n\n  \n\nWorks Cited\n\n> Baker, Houston A. _Black studies, Rap, and the Academy_. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.\n> \n> Brunette, Peter and David Wills (editors). _Deconstruction and the Visual Arts: art, media, architecture_. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.\n> \n> Brunette, Peter and David Wills. _Screen/play: Derrida and film theory_. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989.\n> \n> Conley, Tom. \"Afterword\" to R'da Bensma'a's _The Year of Passages_. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995.\n> \n> Daniel Dayan. \"The Tutor-Code of Classical Cinema.\" _Film Quarterly_ 28, 1 (Fall 1974): 22-31. Reprinted in Bill Nichols, ed. Movies and Methods, vol. 1. Berkley: University of California Press, 1976.\n> \n> Debord, Guy. _La soci't' du spectacle_ (first published in 1967), English translation, _Society of the Spectacle._ Detroit: Black & Red, 1973.\n> \n> Hart, Lynda. _Between the Body and the Flesh: performing sadomasochism_. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.\n> \n> Kauppi, Niilo. _Tel quel, la constitution sociale d'une avant-garde / The making of an Avant-Garde: Tel quel_. 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Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2003.\n> \n> Thomas, Lewis. _The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher._ New York: Penguin, 1975.\n> \n> Trinh, T. Minh-Ha (Thi Minh-Ha), _When the Moon Waxes Red: representation, gender, and cultural politics_. New York: Routledge, 1991.\n> \n> Ulmer, Greg. \"Handbook for a Theory Hobby\" _Visible Language_, Vol. 22, no. 4, 1989.\n> \n> Zizek, Slavoj. _Enjoy Your Symptom!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out._ London: Routledge, 1992.\n\n  \n\nNotes\n  \n\n> Craig J. Saper is Director of Media Studies at the University of Central Florida. He is the author of _Networked Art_ (University of Minnesota Press, 2001) and _Artificial Mythologies: A Guide to Cultural Invention_ (University of Minnesota Press, 1997).\n\n  \n\n> \n\n  \n\n ' 2003 Craig Saper. All rights reserved.  \nUpdated 07/28/21.   \nhttp://jcrt.org/archives/04.2/saper/\n\n---",
  "title": "Of Spectacularization: Writing New Media Theory"
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