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 c...
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| Format: | eBook |
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| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam
Amsterdam University Press
2019
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| Series: | MediaMatters |
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| ISBN: | 9789048543953, 9048543959 |
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Table of Contents:
- Yuriko Furuhata --
- 4. Sensing Screens: From Surface to Situation
- 8. The Charge of a Light Barricade: Optics and Ballistics in the Ambiguous Being of Screens
- Rüdiger Campe --
- Ruggero Eugeni --
- Index
- 11. Material. Human. Divine. Notes on the Vertical Screen
- Table of Contents --
- 10. Imaginary Screens: The Hypnotic Gesture and Early Film
- Francesco Casetti --
- Craig Buckley --
- Craig Buckley, Rüdiger Campe, Francesco Casetti --
- 9. Flat Bayreuth: A Genealogy of Opera as Screened
- Acknowledgments --
- 3. Face and Screen: Toward a Genealogy of the Media Façade
- 5. ‘Taking the Plunge’: The New Immersive Screens
- 7. The Fog Medium: Visualizing and Engineering the Atmosphere
- Noam M. Elcott --
- John Durham Peters --
- Atmospheres --
- 2. ‘Schutz und Schirm’: Screening in German During Early Modern Times
- Antonio Somaini --
- Formats --
- Gundula Kreuzer --
- Spaces --
- Introduction
- 1. Primal Screens
- Frontmatter --
- 6. The Atmospheric Screen: Turner, Hazlitt, Ruskin
- Ariel Rogers --
- Nanna Verhoeff --
- Becoming Screen --