In this Book
- Screen Genealogies: From Optical Device to Environmental Medium
- Book
- 2019
- Published by: Amsterdam University Press
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

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. A genealogy stressing transformation and descent rather than origins and roots emphasizes a deeper set of intersecting and competing definitions of the screen, enabling new thinking about what the screen might yet become.
Table of Contents

- Title, Copyright
- pp. 1-4
- Table of Contents
- pp. 5-6
- Introduction
- pp. 7-26
- Becoming Screen
- 1. Primal Screens
- pp. 27-50
- Spaces
- Atmospheres
- Formats
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 321-322
Additional Information
ISBN
9789048543953
MARC Record
OCLC
1181852304
Launched on MUSE
2020-08-03
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-ND