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...

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Altres autors: Casetti, Francesco (Editor), Campe, Rüdiger (Editor), Buckley, Craig (Editor)
Format: Electrònic eBook
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Col·lecció:MediaMatters.
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Sumari: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.
Descripció de l’ítem:Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
Descripció física:1 online resource: illustrations.
Bibliografia:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789048543953
Accés:Open Access