How Screens Were Becoming Books
Andrzej Gwóźdź
gwan1@poczta.onet.plUniversity of Silesia (Poland)
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4779-5942
Abstract
The book Między kartką a ekranem. Cyfrowe eksperymenty z medium książki w Polsce [Between Page and Screen: Digital Experiments with the Medium of the Book in Poland] (2018) by Piotr Marecki is of an overviewing, typologizing and systemizing nature. Its author points to the diversity of media and cultural entanglements which have accompanied the evolution of literacy interfaces since the 1970s. Marecki focuses on the Polish adventures with book digitality, which is certainly not inferior to its foreign variants, becoming part of the world heritage of electronic literature classics. The author follows the evolution of media forms in particular authors’ manifestations at the junction of the culture of “page” and the culture of “screen” (i.a. Józef Żuk Piwkowski, Robert Szczerbowski, Małgorzata Dawidek or Wojciech Bruszewski). In his argument, the book as such becomes a representative of the whole civilization process which has changed modern media cultures so profoundly. Marecki emerges as a wise and creative successor and continuator of the reflection by the classics of the subject, such as Jay David Bolter and N. Katherine Hayles. His book is intelligent, much-needed and short, and it is also able to both satisfy experts and serve as introductory reading for laymen in the field.
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book, digital book, digital mediaReferences
Marecki, P. (2018). Między kartką a ekranem. Cyfrowe eksperymenty z medium książki w Polsce. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego.
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Andrzej Gwóźdźgwan1@poczta.onet.pl
University of Silesia Poland
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4779-5942
Full Professor at the Institute of Cultural Studies, University of Silesia (Katowice). For many years he was also a researcher and lecturer at the University of Lodz, as well as a guest professor at the universities of Konstanz and Shanghai, and a lecturer at universities in the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Germany and Latvia. He is particularly interested in the theory of film and new media, and the anthropology of imagery. His recent publications include two monographs on German cinema: Zaklinanie rzeczywistości. Filmy niemieckie i ich historie 1933-1949 [Enchanting the Reality. German Films and Their Histories 1933-1949] (2018) and Kino na biegunach. Filmy niemieckie i ich historie 1949-1991 [Rocking Between the Poles. German Films and Their Histories 1949-1991] (2019). Moreover, he is the author of Powtórka z Kutza [Revising the Works of Kazimierz Kutz] (2019), as well as the originator and editor of several dozens of anthologies and collective volumes devoted to media theory, history of film reflection, history of Upper Silesian cinema and various filmmakers. His recent publications include: W poszukiwaniu polskiej Nowej Fali [In Search for the Polish New Wave] (in collaboration with M. Wach, 2017), Widzialność wyzwolona [Liberated Visibility] (in collaboration with N. Gruenpeter, 2018), Z góry widać lepiej. Niedokończone rozmowy z Kazimierzem Kutzem. Rozmawiał Andrzej Gwóźdź [You Get a Better View from Above. Unfinished Conversations with Kazimierz Kutz Interviewed by Andrzej Gwóźdź] (2019). In 2005-2009 he was the president of the Polish Association of Cultural Studies; in 2006-2014 he was the editor-in-chief of the quarterly Kultura Współczesna. He is the founder, and since 2015, the vice-president of the Polish Society for Film and Media Studies.
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