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Agency and Media Reception

Experiencing Video Games, Film, and Television

By: Susanne Eichner

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Agency and Media Reception

Experiencing Video Games, Film, and Television

By: Susanne Eichner

What happens to our sense of agency, our general ability to perform actions in our life worlds, in the course of media reception and appropriation? Whilst considering media communication as a special form of social action, this work reconsiders the key concepts of social action theory, pragmatism, communication theory as well as film, game and television theory. It thus integrates agency as the key to understanding ‘doing media’ and at the same time conceptualizes agency as a specific mode of involvement across media boundaries. This approach amalgamates miscellaneous ideas and conceptions such as interactivity, participation, cognitive control, play or empowerment and applies the theoretical considerations on the basis of textual analyses of the films Inception and The Proposal, the TV shows Lost and I’m a Celebrity and the video games Grand Theft Auto IV and The Walking Dead.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3658046732

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9783658046736

Das Ritual der Aštu (CTH 490)

Rekonstruktion und Tradition eines hurritisch-hethitischen Rituals aus Boğazköy/Ḫattuša

By: Susanne Görke

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Das Ritual der Aštu (CTH 490)

Rekonstruktion und Tradition eines hurritisch-hethitischen Rituals aus Boğazköy/Ḫattuša

By: Susanne Görke

The Ritual of Aštu, a text found at the Hittite Capital of Hattuša, shows strong influence from southern Anatolia and describes a Hurrian-Hittite ritual against witchcraft and sorcery. The following study provides detailed philological treatment of the 13th-century fragments found at Hattuša, from which the ritual is known, including transcription, translation, and commentary of all manuscripts, as well as special emphasis on the Hurrian passages of the ritual. Reconstruction of the more fragmentary sections is undertaken through comparison to other rituals. The study concludes with an analysis of Anatolian, Luwian, and Kizzuwatnaian influences evident in the ritual, and affords, in sum, valuable additions to the study of the nature of Hittite archives, and the development of ritual texts. “I firmly believe that works like this are essential to creating the dialogue that is necessary for the progress of our understanding of Hurrian. Görke’s treatment of the various texts and her discussions of many aspects of the ritual will prove very useful to scholars working on Hurro-Hittite religion.” Dennis R.M. Campbell, San Francisco State University

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BRILL

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9004181180

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9789004181182

Agency and Media Reception

Experiencing Video Games, Film, and Television

By: Susanne Eichner

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Agency and Media Reception

Experiencing Video Games, Film, and Television

By: Susanne Eichner

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Agency and Media Reception

Agency and Media Reception

Das Ritual der Aštu (CTH 490)

Das Ritual der Aštu (CTH 490)

Agency and Media Reception

Agency and Media Reception

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