Mapping audiovisual culture, audiovisual culture as a map

Abstract

In the age of liquid modernity, audiovisual cultural texts and practices are an integral part of a fragmented and unstable reality, while at the same time serving as a mirror in which this reality is reflected. As a result, it can be assumed that audiovisual culture becomes a kind of map of multifaceted transformations: social, political, historical or artistic, which are diagnosed in individual articles. These are either miniature compendia of knowledge, a kind of reference work devoted to selected issues and treating them in an overview and synthetic manner, or insightful case studies. The issue consists of two sections: Film and Media Landscapes and Varia. The first maps out the space (Asian landscapes) and temporal aspects of selected film and media phenomena. The second section looks, for example, at literature.