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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Main Authors: Buckley, Craig, Campe, Rudiger, Casetti, Francesco
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Netherlands Amsterdam University Press 2019
Routledge
Edition:1
Series:MediaMatters
Subjects:
COMPUTERS
Computing and Information Technology
Cultural and media studies
Digital Lifestyle and online world: consumer and user guides
Digital Media
Media
Media Studies
Social interaction
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Society and culture: general
Society and Social Sciences
Digital and Social Media
COMPUTERS
User Interfaces
Digital lifestyle
South
Media studies
AUP Wetenschappelijk
Screens, Media Archeology, Environmental Media, Visual Studies
Digital Media
Media studies: internet, digital media & society
General
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Film, Media, and Communication
Computing & IT: consumer and user guides
environmental media
visual studies
media archeology
screens
ISBN:9789463729000, 9463729003, 9789048543953, 9048543959
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Table of Contents:
  • 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