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Non-narrative pleasures and creative practice

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ID20207634
AuthorsAngela Partington (0000-0002-8511-9718, University of the West of England, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume9
Issue1
Pages9-18
Publication date2008-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Media Practice (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1468-2753 • E-ISSN: 2040-0926
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1386/jmpr.9.1.9_1
OpenAlexW2030144594
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited5

This article is a discussion about the development of media practice both as a creative endeavour and as the collaborative interaction with audiences. It argues that innovations in media practice are dependent on the relationships between practitioners and viewers and that in order to work as ‘cultural intermediaries’, media practitioners need an understanding of how audiences’ relationships with media forms (specifically the ways in which viewers use them to experience shared pleasures) drive innovations in practice. It is also intended as a contribution to the development of Visual Culture as a discipline which is distinct from older critical discourses such as Art History and Film Studies, insofar as its ‘objects’ of study are the practices of looking/watching, rather than images/visual forms as fetished objects. Any critical discourse which aspires to understand the emergence/development of contemporary media forms needs to focus on the ways in which audiences use them, rather than on aspects of ‘form’ such as narrative

Aesthetics · Art · Business · Creative industries · Creative work · Critical practice · Intermediary · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Political science · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Visual arts · Cinema and Media Studies · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Visual Culture and Art Theory

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