Deep Mediations

Karen Redrobe is Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Professor of Cinema and Modern Media at University of Pennsylvania. Jeff Scheible is lecturer of film studies at King’s College London. He is author of Digital Shift: The Cultural Logic of Punctuation (Minnesota, 2015).

• ContentsPrefacePart I. Depths of the Moving Image: Perception, Spectatorship, and Film Theory1. From the Flat Plane, an Architecture of Light: Filming Space in Interwar AnimationKatherine Rochester2. Locomotive Views: Lateral Movement and the Flatness of the Moving ImageJordan Schonig3. Deep in the CaveJean Ma4. On a Lonely Planet, Feeling-in-Depth: Wong Kar-wai’s 2046 and Chris Marker’s Sans SoleilJinhee ChoiPart II. Depth Hermeneutics and Surface Turns5. Depth Effects: Citizen Kane, Citizenfour, and the Deep Time of CinemaJeff Scheible6. Bankers Dream of Banking, or Against the Interpretation of DreamsJennifer Fay7. Blackness at the Heart: Extruding Sovereignty in Nancy’s and Denis’s The IntruderAlessandra Raengo and Laurel Ahnert8. Inaudible Evidence: Counterforensic Listening in Contemporary Documentary Art Pooja Rangan9. To Narrate or Describe? Experimental Documentary beyond DocufictionErika BalsomPart III. Deep Space, Deep Time10. Sinkholes, GIFs, and Cinematic Eco-catastropheKarl Schoonover11. Underground Film: Thinking Vertically across the and of Cinema and Media Studies Karen Redrobe12. Transparency at Depth: Dark Mediation of the Deep Seabed Lisa Han13. Depth Mediators: Undersea Cables, Network Infrastructure, and the Deep OceanNicole Starosielski14. From Planetary Depth to Surface Measure, or How to Read the Future from an ImageJussi ParikkaPart IV. Deep Networks15. Depth in Deep Learning: Knowledgeable, Layered, ImpenetrableTaylor Arnold and Lauren Tilton16. From Stereoscopic Depth to Deep Learning Brooke Belisle17. The Deep Realness of Deepfake Pornography: A ConversationShaka McGlotten, Susanna Paasonen, and John Paul StadlerAcknowledgmentsContributorsIndex

"A timely collection of critical essays that illuminates the aesthetic constitution and political deployment of depth in historical and contemporary media formations."-Critical Inquiry