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Paul Roquet - Ambient Media - 9780816692446 - V9780816692446
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Ambient Media

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Description for Ambient Media hardcover. Num Pages: 248 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 408.

Ambient Media examines music, video art, film, and literature as tools of atmospheric design in contemporary Japan, and what it means to use media as a resource for personal mood regulation. Paul Roquet traces the emergence of ambient styles from the environmental music and Erik Satie boom of the 1960s and 1970s to the more recent therapeutic emphasis on healing and relaxation.

Focusing on how an atmosphere works to reshape those dwelling within it, Roquet shows how ambient aesthetics can provide affordances for reflective drift, rhythmic attunement, embodied security, and urban coexistence. Musicians, video artists, filmmakers, and novelists in Japan have ... Read more

Arguing against critiques of mood regulation that see it primarily as a form of social pacification, Roquet makes a case for understanding ambient media as a neoliberal response to older modes of collective attunement—one that enables the indirect shaping of social behavior while also allowing individuals to feel like they are the ones ultimately in control.


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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816692446
SKU
V9780816692446
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About Paul Roquet
Paul Roquet is a postdoctoral fellow in global media and film studies at Brown University.

Reviews for Ambient Media
"Through a series of probing interventions, Paul Roquet generates a new environment for Japan studies—one that takes into account the faint, ambient, receding, and ubiquitous immaterialities that fill Japan's ether. This is a work worth noticing."—Akira Mizuta Lippit, University of Southern California "Ambient Media is an ambitious work that introduces the reader to a captivating cross-section of ambient ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Ambient Media


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