Saliba Translation of Essays Published
Lisa Gotto’s Big Screens, Small Forms: Visual Varieties in Digital Media Culture (2022) has been published by transcript Verlag, with Rudolph Saliba, Senior Lecturer in German, as a contributing translator for twelve of the volume’s sixteen essays.
In Big Screens, Small Forms, Gotto investigates the medial diversity of screens as a field of tension between large and small forms of digital image culture. This includes, on the one hand, the immersive potential of large image arrangements, such as digital 3D cinema, and, on the other hand, the compactness of mobile image forms, such as those of the smartphone film or the media practices of Instagram. Weaving together a rich variety of examples and sources, this book presents a multifaceted collection of essays that explore the transformational potential of digital media culture, contextualize its media-technical conditions, and reflect on its social consequences.
Lisa Gotto is Professor of Film Theory at the University of Vienna. Her research spans the fields of digital media culture, film studies, game studies, and comparative media studies.