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