Postnaturalism Frankenstein, Film, and the Anthropotechnical Interface Shane Denson, Mark B.N. Hansen

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Denson, Shane <p>Shane Denson, Stanford University, USA</p>, Author.

Contributor:

Hansen, Mark B.N., Author of introduction, etc.

Series:

Film (Transcript (Firm))

Film

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Frankenstein.

Film.

Media Theory.

Philosophy of Technology.

Embodiment.

Analogue Media.

Media Philosophy.

Media Studies.

Local Subjects:

Frankenstein.

Film.

Media Theory.

Philosophy of Technology.

Embodiment.

Analogue Media.

Media Philosophy.

Media Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (433 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Denson, Postnaturalism Frankenstein, Film, and the Anthropotechnical Interface

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2014

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Shane Denson (PhD) is Assistant Professor of Film & Media Studies in the Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University. His research interests include film and media theory, seriality, and the philosophy of technology.

Summary:

»Postnaturalism« offers an original account of human-technological co-evolution and argues that film and media theory, in particular, needs to be re-evaluated from the perspective of our material interfaces with a constantly changing environment. Extrapolating from Frankenstein films and the resonances they establish between a hybrid monster and the spectator hooked into the machinery of the cinema, Shane Denson engages debates in science studies and philosophy of technology to rethink histories of cinema, media, technology, and ultimately of the affective channels of our own embodiment.With a foreword by media theorist Mark B. N. Hansen.

»[The book] offers a highly original and scholary sophisticated account of human-technological co-evolution that re-evaluates film and media theory from the perspective of our material interfaces with a constantly changing environment.«

»Densons detaillierte inhaltliche, rezeptive undproduktionstechnische Betrachtung der Frankenstein-Adaptionen [ist] eine Bereicherung für die analytische und produktionsästhetische Auseinandersetzung mit einem zentralen Text (oder modernen Mythos) und seinen zahlreichen Adaptionen in einer ganzen Reihe von textkritischen Disziplinen: von der Medien- über die Literatur- bis hin zur Kulturwissenschaft.«

Besprochen in:Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht, 1/2 (2014), Dennis Büscher-Ulbrich

Contents:

1 Contents 5 Acknowledgements 7 Foreword: Logics of Transition 11 1. Introduction: Monster Movies and Metaphysics 23 2. Frankenstein's Filmic Progenies: A Techno-Phenomenological Approach 51 3. Monsters in Transit: Edison's Frankenstein 101 4. To the Heart of (the) Matter: Frankenstein, Embodiment, Materiality 149 5. Of Steam Engines, Revolutions, and the (Un)natural History of Matter: A Techno-Scientific Interlude 205 6. Re-Focusing Cinematic Double Vision: Seriality, Mediality, and Mediation in Postnatural Perspective 279 7. Universal Monsters and Monstrous Particulars 353 8. Lines of Flight: Transitional Thoughts by Way of Conclusion 403 Works Cited 417

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783839428177

3839428173

OCLC:

913610752