Wilhelm Raabe’s 1884 novel Pfisters Mühle: Ein Sommerferienheft (Pfister’s Mill: A Summer Vacation’s Notebook) is a work that depicts a society in a state of exceptional and rapid change. The sentiment that Ebert Pfister, the story’s narrator, expresses above captures what…
In India, various processes have congealed in the last three decades to rid cities of perceived ‘dirt.’ This is seen in state-commissioned urban improvement schemes that claim to instill regional and civic pride, as part of which street artists are instrumentalized within urban beautification and cleanliness drives. Notably,…
Virtually every scholarly work that centers on media distribution states the marginality of distribution studies. Even Alisa Perren, who argues that this marginality is simply a matter of different definitions of “distribution,” would agree that much more scholarly attention has been given to reception, production, and exhibition. In recent years much progress has been made, and scholars now have a small yet growing body of scholarly literature on the subject. […]