LEADER 03405nam 2200541ia 450 001 9910520102403321 005 20241120180323.0 010 $a9781501380334 010 $a1501380338 024 7 $a10.5040/9781501380303 035 $a(CKB)5670000000197652 035 $a(OCoLC)1295807215 035 $a(UkLoBP)z00000208155 035 $a(UkLoBP)BP9781501380334BC 035 $a(EXLCZ)995670000000197652 100 $a20160926d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn|---a|a|| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aImperfections $estudies in mistakes, flaws, and failures /$fedited by Caleb Kelly, Jakko Kemper and Ellen Rutten 210 1$aLondon :$cBloomsbury Publishing,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (334 pages) 225 1 $aThinking media 311 08$a9781501380341 311 08$a1501380346 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aImperfect shapes -- Imperfect sounds & systems -- Imperfect selves. 330 $a"In recent years, the trend to present the notion of imperfection as a plus rather than a problem has resonated across a range of social and creative disciplines and a wealth of world localities. As digital tools allow media users to share ever more suave selfies and success stories, psychologists promote 'the gifts of imperfections' and point to perfectionism as a catalyst for rising depression and burnout complaints and suicide rates among millennials. As sound technologies increasingly permit musicians to 'smoothen' their work, composers increasingly praise glitches, noise, and cracks. As genetic engineering upgrades with swift speed, philosophers, marketeers, and physicians plea 'against perfection' and supermarkets successfully advertize 'perfectly imperfect' vegetables. Meanwhile, cultural analysts point at skewed perspectives, blurry images, and other 'deliberate imperfections' in new and historical cinema, painting, photography, music, and literature. In less positive terms, scholars in fields ranging from disability studies to tourism critically interrogate a trend to fetishize imperfection and poverty. They rightfully warn against projecting privileged (and, often, emphatically western-biased) feel-good stories onto the less privileged, the distorted, or the frail. Imperfections synthesizes the swiftly growing but fragmented critical scholarship on mistakes, glitches, and other aesthetics and logics of imperfection into the first transdisciplinary, transnational framework of imperfection studies. With this framework, the editors offer scholars and students across various disciplines tools to craft more historically grounded and critically informed conceptualizations of the imperfect"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aThinking media (Bloomsbury (Firm)). 606 $aIdeals (Aesthetics) 606 $aImperfection 606 $aFilm & Media, Media Theory, Media History 615 0$aIdeals (Aesthetics) 615 0$aImperfection. 615 4$aFilm & Media, Media Theory, Media History 676 $a001.9 702 $aKelly$b Caleb$f1972- 702 $aKemper$b Jakko 702 $aRutten$b Ellen$f1975- 801 0$bUkLoBP 801 1$bUkLoBP 801 2$bUkLoBP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910520102403321 996 $aImperfections$92989570 997 $aUNINA