Jessica Pressman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3682038 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessica Pressman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessica |
| FAMILY NAME | Pressman |
| SIGNATURE | PRESSMAN J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Hooked on Mermaids
This article is part reflection on how academic disciplines can stymie creative scholarship and part critical effort to break out of that orientation to reclaim the author’s personal passion for mermaids as subject for scholarly analysis. Pressman argues that contemporary mermaid literature has much to tell us about our most pressing social, cultural, and political issues. This article takes as its starting point the racist backlash over Disney’s…
Bookishness
Jessica Pressman explores the rise of “bookishness” as an identity and an aesthetic strategy that proliferates from store-window décor to experimental writing. Ranging from literature to kitsch objects, stop-motion animation films to book design, she considers the multivalent meanings of books in contemporary culture
Bookishness
Book Presence in a Digital Age
Contrary to the apocalyptic pronouncements of paper media’s imminent demise in the digital age, there has been a veritable surge of creative reimaginings of books as bearers of the literary. From typographic experiments (Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves, Steven Hall’s The Raw Shark Texts) to accordion books (Anne Carson’s Nox), from cut ups (Jonathan Safran Foer’s Tree of Codes) to collages (Graham Rawle’s Woman’s World), from erasures (Mary…
Comparative Textual Media
Contents Introduction. Making, Critique: A Media FrameworkN. Katherine Hayles and Jessica Pressman Part I. Theories1. TXTual PracticeRita Raley2. Mobile Narratives: Reading and Writing Urban Space with Location-Based TechnologiesAdriana de Souza e Silva3. The .txtual ConditionMatthew G. Kirschenbaum4. From A to ScreenJohanna Drucker Part II. Practices5. Bookrolls as MediaWilliam A. Johnson6. Dwarven Epitaphs: Procedural Histories in Dwarf Fortres…
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Comparative Textual Media
Contents Introduction. Making, Critique: A Media FrameworkN. Katherine Hayles and Jessica Pressman Part I. Theories1. TXTual PracticeRita Raley2. Mobile Narratives: Reading and Writing Urban Space with Location-Based TechnologiesAdriana de Souza e Silva3. The .txtual ConditionMatthew G. Kirschenbaum4. From A to ScreenJohanna Drucker Part II. Practices5. Bookrolls as MediaWilliam A. Johnson6. Dwarven Epitaphs: Procedural Histories in Dwarf Fortres…
Book Presence in a Digital Age
Contrary to the apocalyptic pronouncements of paper media’s imminent demise in the digital age, there has been a veritable surge of creative reimaginings of books as bearers of the literary. From typographic experiments (Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves, Steven Hall’s The Raw Shark Texts) to accordion books (Anne Carson’s Nox), from cut ups (Jonathan Safran Foer’s Tree of Codes) to collages (Graham Rawle’s Woman’s World), from erasures (Mary…
Bookishness
Jessica Pressman explores the rise of “bookishness” as an identity and an aesthetic strategy that proliferates from store-window décor to experimental writing. Ranging from literature to kitsch objects, stop-motion animation films to book design, she considers the multivalent meanings of books in contemporary culture
Bookishness
Hooked on Mermaids
This article is part reflection on how academic disciplines can stymie creative scholarship and part critical effort to break out of that orientation to reclaim the author’s personal passion for mermaids as subject for scholarly analysis. Pressman argues that contemporary mermaid literature has much to tell us about our most pressing social, cultural, and political issues. This article takes as its starting point the racist backlash over Disney’s…
Computer Science (3 works) · Digital Games and Media (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Digital Humanities and Scholarship (2 works) · History (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Animation (1 work) · books and reading (1 work) · Cinema and Media Studies (1 work)