The Aesthetics of Authenticity : : Medial Constructions of the Real / / ed. by Wolfgang Funk, Irmtraud Huber, Florian Groß.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter transcript Backlist eBook Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Bousquet, David,; Eis, Melanie,; Funk, Wolfgang,; Gross, Florian,; Huber, Irmtraud,; Hulse, Seth,; Knaller, Susanne,; Mettler, Melanie,; Palitzsch, Francesca Nadja,; Schmalfuss, Sven,; Seita, Sophie,; Weixler, Antonius,
• HerausgeberIn: Funk, Wolfgang,; Groß, Florian,; Huber, Irmtraud,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2014]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1. Aufl.
• Language: English
• Series: Kultur- und Medientheorie
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (284 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Exploring the Empty Plinth --; Fragmentations --; Authenticity as an Aesthetic Notion --; Found Objects --; Monolithic Authenticity and Fake News --; Authentic Bodies --; Contestations --; »The Real Thing« --; Real Lives – Living Wild --; Monica Ali and the Suspension of Disbelief --; Performances --; Poet and the Roots --; The Dilettantish Construction of the Extraordinary or the Authenticity of the Artificial --; »Brooklyn Zack Is Real« --; Authentic Simulacra or The Aura of Repetition --; Contributors
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783839417577; 9783111025230; 9783110661552; 9783110352856; 9783110370744
• DOI: 10.1515/transcript.9783839417577?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Wolfgang Funk, Irmtraud Huber, Florian Groß.

As a concept that increasingly gains importance in contemporary cultural discourse, authenticity emerges as a site of tearing tensions between the fictional and the real, original and fake, margin and centre, the same and the other.The essays collected in this volume explore this paradoxical nature of authenticity in the context of various media. They give ample proof of the fact that authenticity, which depends on giving the impression of being inherent or natural, found not created, frequently turns out to be the result of a careful aesthetic construction that depends on the use of identifiable techniques with the aim of achieving certain effects for certain reasons.