Media and Genre

Ivo Ritzer is a professor of media studies at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. He has given invited talks all over the world and has published a large number of essays, monographs, and edited volumes with topics such as media aesthetics, media philosophy, and media archaeology. His most recent publications include Key Works in Media Studies (2020), Politics of the Popular: Media – Culture – Theory (2019), Media Theory of Globalization (2018), and Media Dispositives (2018).

• Part I.- Genres in Media and Cultural Theory, Yvonne Tasker.- Genre in Action: The Impossibility and Value of Genre Analysis, Ivo Ritzer.- Trespass: Genre, Author, and Play in the Discourse of Media Aesthetics, Hannah Schoch.- Genre Affordances: Hamilton, An American Musical and the Political Dynamics of Cultural Circulation.- Part II.- Trans-media Perspectives, Karina Kirsten.- Genre Processes in Dialogic Constellations: Bates Motel, Peter W. Schulze.- Tango, Samba and Ranchera: The Trans/National Cultural Economy of Latin American Musicals (1930s-50s), Katja Hettich.- Can You Feel the Love Tonight? The Cognitive and Affective Conditions of Romance, Meike Sarah Reinerth.- Political Genres of Online Animation: Genre Theory, Animation Studies, and Digital Media.- Part III.- Re-thinking Genres in Film Studies, Johannes Pause / Niels-Oliver Walkowski.- Zombies, Conspiracies, and Aesthetics in Crisis, Irina Gradinari.- Ideology Dialogues: The DEFA Antifascist Film, Florian Mundhenke.- Documentary as Genre or Mode? Roger Odin's and Gérard Genette's Answers from the Viewpoint of Pragma-semiotics and Narratology.