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- Screens
- 2016
- Book
- Published by: Amsterdam University Press
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summary
We live in an era of screens. No longer just the place where we view movies, or watch TV at night, screens are now ubiquitous, the source of the majority of information we consume daily, and a crucial component of our basic interactions with colleagues, friends, and family. This transformation has happened almost without us realizing it-and certainly without the full theoretical and intellectual analysis it deserves.Screens brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines to analyse the growing presence and place of screens in our lives today. They tackle such topics as the archaeology of screens, film and media theories about our interactions with them, their use in contemporary art, and the new avenues they open up for showing films and other media in non-traditional venues.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 11-12
- Part I. Archaeology and History
- Rectangle-Film [25x19] (1918)
- pp. 23-28
- The Stuff of Screens
- pp. 70-80
- Part II. Technology and New Practices
- Scaling Down: Cinerama on Blu-ray
- pp. 81-96
- The Disappearance of the Surface
- pp. 97-106
- GoPro: Augmented Bodies, Somatic Images
- pp. 107-115
- Screens in the City
- pp. 125-140
- Part III. Theory
- The Concept of the Mental Screen
- pp. 176-185
- Part IV. Intermediality
- Screens after Dos Passos’s U.S.A. Trilogy
- pp. 201-222
- El Lissitzky’s Screening Rooms
- pp. 223-235
- Part V. Dialogues
- Gulliver Goes to the Movies
- pp. 245-257
- The Skin and the Screen – A Dialogue
- pp. 258-263
- General Bibliography
- pp. 321-343
- Notes on Contributors
- pp. 344-349
- Index of Names
- pp. 350-355
- Index of Film Titles
- pp. 356-357
- Series Page
- p. 358
Additional Information
ISBN
9789048531691
Related ISBN(s)
9789462981904
MARC Record
OCLC
982244755
Pages
480
Launched on MUSE
2020-07-08
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Copyright
2016