Varpu Rantala
Biographic Data
| ID | 6677951 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Varpu Rantala |
| GIVEN NAMES | Varpu |
| FAMILY NAME | Rantala |
| SIGNATURE | RANTALA V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Turku |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Strange Beauty of Media Theory
Digital Cinema. Now
Post-Cinematic Affect By Steven Shaviro Zero Books, 2010 200 pp./$19.95 (sb) Since releasing his groundbreaking 1993 book Cinematic Body: Theory Out of Bounds, which introduced a Deleuzian view on affective cinema spectatorship, Steven Shaviro has written on network society, postmodernity, and the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. His most recent book, Post-Cinematic Affect (2010), once again engages with film. It offers an important commenta…
Is pathological gambling just a big problem or also an addiction
There is no research-based consensus on whether pathological gambling is also an addiction and not just a problem, and how it could be related to cultural factors. We present a critical review of dominant theories of addiction and propose our own theory based on the concept of images and the theory of agency. We show, using material from a Finnish internet discussion forum comprising 42 discussions with 487 messages, that the criteria proposed fo…
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Digital Cinema. Now
Post-Cinematic Affect By Steven Shaviro Zero Books, 2010 200 pp./$19.95 (sb) Since releasing his groundbreaking 1993 book Cinematic Body: Theory Out of Bounds, which introduced a Deleuzian view on affective cinema spectatorship, Steven Shaviro has written on network society, postmodernity, and the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. His most recent book, Post-Cinematic Affect (2010), once again engages with film. It offers an important commenta…
Is pathological gambling just a big problem or also an addiction
There is no research-based consensus on whether pathological gambling is also an addiction and not just a problem, and how it could be related to cultural factors. We present a critical review of dominant theories of addiction and propose our own theory based on the concept of images and the theory of agency. We show, using material from a Finnish internet discussion forum comprising 42 discussions with 487 messages, that the criteria proposed fo…
The Strange Beauty of Media Theory
Art (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Digital Games and Media (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Addiction (1 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Agency (philosophy (1 works) · Beauty (1 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (1 works)