Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

• Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• Buckley, Craig
• Campe, Rüdiger
• Casetti, Francesco

Description

327 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

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

Series Statement

MediaMatters

Uniform Title

MediaMatters.

Subjects

• Information technology > Social aspects
• Mass media

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Primal screens / Francesco Casetti -- 'Schutz und Schirm' : screening in German during early modern times / Rudiger Campe -- Face and screen : toward a genealogy of the media façade / Craig Buckley -- Sensing screens : from surface to situation / Nanna Verhoeff -- 'Taking the plunge' : the new immersive screens / Ariel Rogers -- The atmospheric screen : Turner, Hazlitt, Ruskin / Antonio Somaini -- The fog medium : visualizing and engineering the atmosphere / Yuriko Furuhata -- The charge of a light barricade : optics and ballistics in the ambiguous being of screens / John Durham Peters -- Flat Bayreuth : a genealogy of opera as screened / Gundula Kreuzer -- Imaginary screens : the hyppnotic gesture and early film / Ruggero Eugeni -- Material. Human. Divine. Notes on the vertical screen / Noam M. Elcott.

Call Number

MFLF 20-2540

ISBN

• 9789463729000
• 9463729003
• 9789048543953 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

1105944213

Title

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

Publisher

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

MediaMatters

MediaMatters.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Buckley, Craig, editor.

Campe, Rüdiger, editor.

Casetti, Francesco, editor.

Other Form:

Electronic version: Screen genealogies. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019] 9789048543953 (OCoLC)1130062352

Research Call Number

MFLF 20-2540