Screen genealogies : from optical device to environmental medium / edited by Craig Buckley, Rüdiger Campe, and Francesco Casetti.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Buckley, Craig, editor.

Campe, Rüdiger, editor.

Casetti, Francesco, editor.

Series:

MediaMatters

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information technology--Social aspects.

Information technology.

Mass media.

Physical Description:

327 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]

Summary:

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 commonly inscribed. As contemporary screens become increasingly decomposed into a distributed field of technologically interconnected surfaces and interfaces, we more readily recognize the deeper spatial and environmental interventions that have long been a property of screens. For most of its history, a screen was a filter, a divide, a shelter, or a camouflage. An intermedial genealogy stressing transformation and descent rather than origins and roots emphasizes that the understanding of the screen as optical surface was but one instance in a larger set of intersecting and competing definitions. -- Back cover

Contents:

Becoming Screen

1 Primal Screens p. 27 / Francesco Casetti

2 'Schutz und Schirm': Screening in German During Early-Modern Times p. 51 / Rüdiger Campe

Spaces

3 Face and Screen: Toward a Genealogy of the Media Façade p. 73 / Craig Buckley

4 Sensing Screens: From Surface to Situation p. 115 / Nanna Verhoeff

5 'Taking the Plunge': The New Immersive Screens p. 135 / Ariel Rogers

Atmospheres

6 The Atmospheric Screen: Turner, Hazlitt, Ruskin p. 159 / Antonio Somaini

7 The Fog Medium: Visualizing and Engineering the Atmosphere p. 187 / Yuriko Furuhata

8 The Charge of a Light Barricade: Optics and Ballistics in the Ambiguous Being of Screens p. 215 / John Durham Peters

Formats

9 Flat Bayreuth: A Genealogy of Opera as Screened p. 237 / Gundula Kreuzer

10 Imaginary Screens: The Hypnotic Gesture and Early Film p. 269 / Ruggero Eugeni

11 Material. Human. Divine. Notes on the Vertical Screen p. 293 / Noam M. Elcott.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Screen genealogies.

ISBN:

9789463729000

9463729003

OCLC:

1105944213