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Sticky Films brings the material and conceptual dimensions of stickiness into conversation, looking for intentional and sometimes unwanted sticky residues in film and media cultures. The chapters explore the feelings of stickiness, sticky modes of being, as well as representations or traces of stickiness in audiovisual media.

Sticky Films

Stickiness is ambiguous. Sometimes it is a problem, sometimes a solution. It holds a strong affective charge between arousal, lust and disgust. If something is sticky, it promises relation while also threatening unwanted clinginess and the collapse of boundaries between self and other. This volume seeks out moments of stickiness in media cultures, thinking “film” beyond moving images as sediment, residue or layer that transforms, repairs, melts, and splices. Sticky Films explores stickiness in three parts: through sticky feelings, sticky modes of being and becoming, and the representations and material traces of stickiness in audiovisual media.

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Publishing Year
2025
Language
English
Pages
280
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CC-BY-SA 4.0
ISBNs
978-3-95796-234-8 (Print)
978-3-95796-235-5 (PDF)
DOI
10.14619/2348
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The Editors

Kerim Doğruel is a former member of the “Configurations of Film” Research Training Program. His research is concerned with the materiality of electronic and digital media media theory, and game studies. He has written and taught about on- and off-screen crystals in computer games, circuit board cities and the rhetoric of architectural models, and is currently working on the design and uses of media technologies in prisons.
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Fadekemi Olawoye is a doctoral candidate in the Graduate Research Training Program “Configurations of Film” at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. She holds a Master’s degree in Performance Studies from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Language from the University of Lagos, Nigeria. Her research interests include Nollywood studies, costume and makeup, identity formations, and African popular culture.

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Clara Podlesnigg is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in Digital Film Cultures at Goethe University Frankfurt. Her dissertation, written as part of the Research Training Program “Configurations of Film”, focuses on holograms and promises of technology in the context of digital platforms. She is a section editor for the journal Open Cultural Studies. Her research interests span everyday cultures, celebrity studies, educational media, gender and technology.

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