Medial bodies between fiction and faction : reinventing corporeality / Denisa Butnaru (ed.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Butnaru, Denisa, editor.

Walter de Gruyter & Co.

Series:

Body cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human body in mass media.

Human body in literature.

Human body in motion pictures.

Human figure in art.

Human body (Philosophy).

Human body--Social aspects.

Human body.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 pages).

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld : Transcipt Verlag, [2020]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Introduction. Medial Bodies. Fictions, Facts and the Reinvention of Corporeality

I. Hybrid Bodies

Gazing Upon the Cyborg as An Unreliable Cartoon: On Some Issues from Superior Iron Man (2014-2015)

Robots which draw. How BioArt rethinks Body and Hybridity

Artificial human beings and the power of literature: Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Holmberg, and Piglia

The Aesthetics of Bodies in Translation: From The Water-Babies to Real Humans

II. Bodies Unbound: Disability, Ability, Enhancement

From Disability to Enhancement: Paradoxical Representations of Prosthetic Bodies in the Media Discourse

Disability as Malleability: The Prosthetic Metaphor, Merleau-Ponty and the Case of Aimee Mullins

The Protean Self

Detecting Bodies: The Dystopian Detective Film and Narratives of Reproduction

III. Corporeal Interfaces

The Cinematic Body. A reflection on the status of the sentient body in film theory

Embodying the Reader: Perspectives on Fiction, Cognition, and the Body

Medial Bodies: Forays into Artistic and Philosophical- Anthropological Research

The Aberrant Medial Body. Visual Representations of Self-Harming Behavior on Social Network Sites

List of Authors

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.

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Other Format:

Print version: Butnaru, Denisa Medial Bodies between Fiction and Faction : Reinventing Corporeality

ISBN:

9783839447291

3839447291

Publisher Number:

99985889728

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