Screen Genealogies
Craig Buckley, Rüdiger Campe, Francesco Casetti (eds)
- Title
- Screen Genealogies
- Subtitle
- From Optical Device to Environmental Medium
- ISBN
- 9789048543953
- Format
- eBook PDF
- Number of pages
- 328
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 11 - 11 - 2019
- Dimensions
- 15.6 x 24 cm
- Open Access
- Download on Open Access Platform
- Series
- MediaMatters
- Discipline
- Film, Media, and Communication
- Also available as
- Paperback - € 65,95
CHAP 00 INTRODUCTION
Craig Buckley, Rüdiger Campe, and Francesco Casetti
SECTION ONE: 'Becoming Screen'
CHAP 01
Primal Screens
Francesco Casetti, Yale University
CHAP 02
'Schutz und Schirm': Screening in German During Early Modern Times
Rüdiger Campe, Yale University
SECTION TWO: Spaces
CHAP 03
Face and Screen: Toward a Genealogy of the Media Façade
Craig Buckley, Yale University
CHAP 04
Sensing Screens: From Surface to Situation
Nanna Verhoeff, Utrecht University
CHAP 05
'Taking the Plunge': The New Immersive Screens
Ariel Rogers, Northwestern University
SECTION THREE: Atmospheres
CHAP 06
The Atmospheric Screen: Turner, Hazlitt, Ruskin
Antonio Somaini, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3
CHAP 07
The Fog Medium: Visualizing and Engineering the Atmosphere
Yuriko Furuhata, McGill University
CHAP 08
The Charge of a Light Barricade:
Optics and Ballistics in the Ambiguous Being of Screens
John Durham Peters, Yale University
SECTION FOUR: Formats
CHAP 09
Flat Bayreuth: A Genealogy of Opera as Screened
Gundula Kreuzer, Yale University
CHAP 10
Imaginary Screens: The Hypnotic Gesture and Early Film
Ruggero Eugeni, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Milan
CHAP 11
Material. Human. Divine. Notes on the Vertical Screen
Noam M. Elcott, Columbia University
INDEX
Screen Genealogies
From Optical Device to Environmental Medium
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.
Editors
Craig Buckley
Craig Buckley is an assistant professor of Modern and Contemporary architecture in the History of Art Department at Yale University.
Rüdiger Campe
Rüdiger Campe is the Alfred C. and Martha F. Mohr Professor of Germanic Languages & Literatures at Yale University.
Francesco Casetti
Francesco Casetti is the Thomas E. Donnelly Professor of Humanities and Film and Media Studies at Yale University.
