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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

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