This book should be of interest to students and lecturers of cultural studies, literary theory, film theory.

Much of recent theory has characterized life in media-sophisticated societies in terms of a semiotic overload with devastating effects on communication and subjectivity. In Architectures of Excess, Jim Collins argues that, while the rate of technological change has indeed accelerated, so has the rate of absorption. The seemingly endless array of information has generated not chaos but different structures and strategies which harness that excess by turning it into new forms of art and entertainment. Collins concentrates on contemporary phenomena that are also envisioning new cultural...