Screen Genealogies From Optical Device to Environmental Medium
Against the grain of the growing literature on screens, *Screen Genealogies* argues that the present excess of screens cannot be understood as an expansion and multiplication of the movie screen nor of the video display. Rather, screens continually exceed the optical histories in which they are most...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Netherlands
Amsterdam University Press
2019
Routledge |
| Ausgabe: | 1 |
| Schriftenreihe: | MediaMatters |
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| ISBN: | 9789463729000, 9463729003, 9789048543953, 9048543959 |
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- Cover Table of Contents Title, Copyright Introduction 1. Primal Screens 2. 'Schutz und Schirm': Screening in German During Early Modern Times 3. Face and Screen: Toward a Genealogy of the Media Facade 4. Sensing Screens: From Surface to Situation 5. 'Taking the Plunge': The New Immersive Screens 6. The Atmospheric Screen: Turner, Hazlitt, Ruskin 7. The Fog Medium: Visualizing and Engineering the Atmosphere 8. The Charge of a Light Barricade: Optics and Ballistics in the Ambiguous Being of Screens 9. Flat Bayreuth: A Genealogy of Opera as Screened 10. Imaginary Screens: The Hypnotic Gesture and Early Film 11. Material. Human. Divine. Notes on the Vertical Screen Acknowledgments Index