Academic Deliberations on Words, Visuals and Beyond

Academic Deliberations on Words, Visuals and Beyond

Author: Mini M Abraham
 

Publisher: Pratham Publications
Year: 2025
eISBN: 9789388742122
Language: English

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SECTION-I
MEDIATIZATION
1. Mediatization of Culture and the Transformation of
Individualism
—Stig Hjarvard
2. Xenotransplantation, Form-of-life and Post human Lives

3. From Mediatisation to Mythification: The Course of Icons
in the Making

4. Mediatization of Narrative Spaces in M.T. Vasudevan
Nair’s The Soul of Darkness

5. Exposed: Mediatization and the Realm of the Private

6. From Reel to Real: Cinema Fictionalised in Shashi
Tharoor’sShow Business

7. Mimetic Blurring of Cultural and Aesthetic Spaces

SECTION-II
NEW MEDIA AND CULTURE
8. Digital Story worlds and Beyond: Analyzing the Unnatural
Immersive Reading Experience in Digital Fictions

9. Emerging Trends in New Media: Quest for Authenticity
in Living History

10. From Scriptures to Television: A Study of the Representation
of Goddess Kali in the Mythological Soap Opera

11. The Bad Clown in the Game: An Overview of Troll face in
Internet Discourse

12. Digging Deeper in Digital Narratives: Heuristic Trends in
Social Media

13. Popular Urban Legends as Cautionary Cyber Tales: A
Resistant Reading

14. The Intervention of Technology: The Cold Black Mirror that
Reflects Life

SECTION-III
MEDIA AND GENDER
15. “Why should Boys have all the Fun?” Evolving Gender Roles
and Advent of ‘femvertising’ in Indian Commercials

16. Re-queering Queer Spaces: Mediatization as a Neoheteronormative
Tool in Kerala Queer Space

17. Y-ME: Breast Cancer and Feminism in Print and Visual
Narratives from 19th C to Post Millennial Era

SECTION-IV
NEW NARRATIVE MODES IN MEDIA
18. Rendering of Caste Discrimination in Graphic Narratives:
A Study based on Bhimayana

19. Subverted and Grim-dark: Re-visioning Fantasy Genre
through Game of Thrones

20. Digital Literature and Postmodern Society

21. The Hidden Canine behind the Smile: The Tricks and
Cricks of Advertisements

22. Metamorphosis of Society by Means of Trending Trolling
Behaviour

23. Horror Feminae: Neo-Noir Uncanny Nolan Complex

24. Truth Revealed in When the Fighting is Over Tumbledown:
A Personal Story

25. Media as an agent of Social Change in Call of Life: Facing
the Mass Extinction

SECTION-V
VISUAL MEDIA AND CULTURE
26. Filming Fearscapes: Reconsidering the Spatial Dimensions
in Manichitrathazhu and Akam

27. Mapping Nature on Futurist Imperial Age: A Brief Narrative
Analysis of Artificial Intelligence and Elysium

28. Crossing the Twin Towers: A Reading of Mordical Gerstein’s
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers

29. ‘Visual-to-Culture’ and ‘Culture-to-Visual’: Counter-
Hollywood Narratives in American East, My Name Is Khan
and Mooz-lum

30. Living the Emoji Life: Storytelling with a Smile and a Wink

31. Narration by Animation: A Potential Learning Space in
Educational Media

32. A Foray into the Interactive Space of New Generation
Visual Narrative: The Video Games

33. Visibility and Surveillance: A Study of Ruth Ozeki’sA Tale
for the Time Being

34. Images of Mourning: Combating Trauma through the
Narrative Space of Photography

35. Adapting Novels into Graphic Novels: Reading the Gaps in
Knight of Darkness

36. Cartoons: Visual Narratives that Sculpture Young Minds

SECTION-VI
MEDIA IDENTITY AND NARRATIVE SPACES
37. Brands as Narratives: Identity Constructs generated by
Brands

38. The Museum of Innocence and The Innocence of Objects:
OrhanPamuk’s Polemics of Words, Objects and History

39. Garhwal in Memes: Connecting with the Everyday through
a New Narrative Space

40. Narrating the Nation through Biographical Comics: An
Analysis of Amar Chitra Katha’s Mahatma Gandhi:
Father of the Nation

41. Reinterpreting Turkish History through Monumental Space:
A Study of OrhanPamuk’sSilent House

42. Digital Chronotopes: Individual, Shared, and Public

43. Media Consciousness: Role of Education in the 21st
Century