Screen Genealogies: From Optical Device to Environmental Medium 9463729003, 9789463729000
Against the grain of the growing literature on screens, *Screen Genealogies* argues that the present excess of screens c
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Table of contents :
Cover
Table of Contents
Introduction
Craig Buckley, Rüdiger Campe, and Francesco Casetti
1. Primal Screens
Francesco Casetti
2. ‘Schutz und Schirm’: Screening in German During Early Modern Times
Rüdiger Campe
3. Face and Screen: Toward a Genealogy of the Media Façade
Craig Buckley
4. Sensing Screens: From Surface to Situation
Nanna Verhoeff
5. ‘Taking the Plunge’: The New Immersive Screens
Ariel Rogers
6. The Atmospheric Screen: Turner, Hazlitt, Ruskin
Antonio Somaini
7. The Fog Medium: Visualizing and Engineering the Atmosphere
Yuriko Furuhata
8. The Charge of a Light Barricade: Optics and Ballistics in the Ambiguous Being of Screens
John Durham Peters
9. Flat Bayreuth: A Genealogy of Opera as Screened
Gundula Kreuzer
10. Imaginary Screens: The Hypnotic Gesture and Early Film
Ruggero Eugeni
11. Material. Human. Divine. Notes on the Vertical Screen
Noam M. Elcott
Acknowledgments
Index
Cover
Table of Contents
Introduction
Craig Buckley, Rüdiger Campe, and Francesco Casetti
1. Primal Screens
Francesco Casetti
2. ‘Schutz und Schirm’: Screening in German During Early Modern Times
Rüdiger Campe
3. Face and Screen: Toward a Genealogy of the Media Façade
Craig Buckley
4. Sensing Screens: From Surface to Situation
Nanna Verhoeff
5. ‘Taking the Plunge’: The New Immersive Screens
Ariel Rogers
6. The Atmospheric Screen: Turner, Hazlitt, Ruskin
Antonio Somaini
7. The Fog Medium: Visualizing and Engineering the Atmosphere
Yuriko Furuhata
8. The Charge of a Light Barricade: Optics and Ballistics in the Ambiguous Being of Screens
John Durham Peters
9. Flat Bayreuth: A Genealogy of Opera as Screened
Gundula Kreuzer
10. Imaginary Screens: The Hypnotic Gesture and Early Film
Ruggero Eugeni
11. Material. Human. Divine. Notes on the Vertical Screen
Noam M. Elcott
Acknowledgments
Index
