Palgrave Handbook of Posthumanism in Film and Television
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
Av Michael Hauskeller, Curtis D. Carbonell, Thomas D. Philbeck, Curtis D Carbonell, Thomas D Philbeck
2 379 kr
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2015-09-02
- Mått155 x 235 x 27 mm
- Vikt900 g
- FormatInbunden
- SpråkEngelska
- Antal sidor450
- Upplaga2015
- FörlagPalgrave Macmillan
- ISBN9781137430311
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Drew Ayers, Santa Barbara City College, USABabette Babich, Fordham University, USAJon Baldwin, London Metropolitan University, UKDouglas Brown, Falmouth University, UKWilliam Brown, University of Roehampton, UKJohn Bruni, Grand Valley State University, USAIvan Callus, University of MaltaCurtis D. Carbonell, Khalifa University, UAESteen Ledet Christiansen, Aalborg University, DenmarkJay Clayton, Vanderbilt University, USAT. Hugh Crawford, Georgia Institute of Technology, USAJames DiGiovanna, CUNY, USAFrancesca Ferrando, New York University, USAElaine Graham, University of Chester, UKGraham Harman, American University in Cairo, EgyptDan Hassler-Forest, University of Amsterdam, NetherlandsMichael Hauskeller, University of Exeter, UKPhil Henderson, University of Victoria, CanadaStefan Herbrechter, Heidelberg University, GermanyEric Hill, Winthrop University, USAJames Hughes, Trinity College, USAJoel Krueger, University of Exeter, UKTanya Krzywinska, Falmouth University, UKKevin LaGrandeur, New York Institute of Technology, USATarja Laine, University of Amsterdam, NetherlandsBrett Lunceford, Rhetorical Scholar, USATeodora Manea, University of Exeter, UKDavid Meeler, Winthrop University, USAJeff Menne, Oklahoma State University, USAPramod K. Nayar, University of Hyderabad, IndiaDónal P O'Mathúna, Dublin City University, IrelandAlexander D. Ornella, University of Hull, UKThomas D. Philbeck, World Economic Forum, GenevaAnat Pick, Queen Mary, University of London, UKRalph Pordzik, Würzburg University, Germany Anna Powell, Manchester Metropolitan University, UKDavid Roden, Open University, UKRhys Owain Thomas, University of East Anglia, UKSherryl Vint, University of California, Riverside, USAHilary Wheaton, University of Exeter, UKHub Zwart, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Notes on Contributors 1. Posthumanism in Film and Television; Michael Hauskeller, Thomas D. Philbeck and Curtis D. Carbonell PART I: PAVING THE WAY TO POSTHUMANISM: THE PRECURSORS 2. From DelGuat to ScarJo; William Brown 3. Self-Immolation by Technology. Jean Baudrillard and the Posthuman in Film and Television; Jon Baldwin 4. Derrida on Screen; Stefan Herbrechter 5. Bruno Latour: From the Nonmodern to the Posthuman; T. Hugh Crawford 6. Friedrich Nietzsche and the Transhuman in Film and Television; Babette Babich PART II: VARIETIES OF PEOPLE-TO-COME: POSTHUMAN BECOMINGS 7. Terminated: The Life and Death of the Cyborg in Film and Television; Rhys Owain Thomas 8. Of Iron Men and Green Monsters: Superheroes and Posthumanism; Dan Hassler-Forest 9. Growing Your Own: Monsters from the Lab and Molecular Ethics in Post-Humanist Film; Anna Powell 10. Post-Singularity Entities in Film and TV; David Roden 11. Chimeras and Hybrids. The Digital Swarms of the Posthuman Image; Drew Ayers PART III: RISE OF THE MACHINES: POSTHUMAN INTELLECTS 12: Androids and the Posthuman in Television and Film; Kevin LaGrandeur 13. 'Change for the Machines'? Posthumanism as Digital Sentience; Sherryl Vint 14. Alive in the Net; Jay Clayton and Jeff Menne 15. Autonomous Fighting Machines. Narratives and Ethics; Donal O'Mathuna PART IV: BODY AND SOUL: POSTHUMAN SUBJECTIVITIES 16. Contest of Tropes. Screened Posthuman Subjectivities; Curtis D. Carbonell 17. Representations of Cybersex in Film and Television; Hilary Wheaton 18. At Home In and Beyond Our Skin: Posthuman Embodiment; Joel Krueger 19. Constructed Worlds. Posthumanism in Film, Television and Other Cosmopoietic Media; Ivan Callus 20. Tanya Krzywinska & Douglas Brown, Games, Gamers, and Posthumanism PART V: BETTER HUMANS: POSTHUMAN CAPACITIES 21. 'Life's a Bitch, and Then You Don't Die.' Postmortality in Film and Television; Michael Hauskeller 22. A New Lease on Life: A Lacanian Analysis of Cognitive Enhancement Cinema; Hub Zwart 23. Limitless? There's a Pill for That; Kyle McNease 24. Posthumans and Democracy in Popular Culture; James Hughes 25. Negative Feelings as Emotional Enhancement; Tarja Laine PART VI: CREATING DIFFERENCE AND IDENTITY: POSTHUMAN COMMUNITIES 26. Biopleasures. Posthumanism and the Technological Imaginary in Utopian and Dystopian Film; Ralph Pordzik 27. Of Posthuman Born. Gender, Utopia, and the Posthuman, in Films and TV; Francesca Ferrando 28. Sharing Social Context: Is Community with the Posthuman Possible?; David Meeler and Eric Hill 29. Our Posthuman Skin Condition; Teodora Manea 30. Muddy Worlds: Re-Viewing Environmental Narratives; John Bruni PART VII: US AND THEM: POSTHUMAN RELATIONSHIPS 31. Executing Species: Animal Attractions in Thomas Edison and Douglas Gordon; Anat Pick 32. The Sun Never Set on the Human Empire: Haunts of Humanism in the Planet of the Apes Films; Phil Henderson 33. Uncanny Intimacies. Human and Machines in Film; Alexander Darius Ornella 34. Posthumanous Subjects; Steen Christiansen 35. Identity: Difficulties, Discontinuities and Pluralities of Personhood; James DiGiovanna PART VIII: MORE HUMAN THAN HUMAN: POSTHUMAN ONTOLOGIES 36. The Final Frontier? Religion and Posthumanism in Film and Television; Elaine Graham 37. The Ghost in the Machine. Humanity and the Problem of Self-Aware Information; Brett Lunceford 38. Trust a Few, Fear the Rest: the Anxiety and Fantasy of Human Evolution; Pramod K. Nayar 39. The Posthumanist Paradigm Shift in Film and Television; Thomas D. Philbeck 40. Object Oriented Ontology; Graham Harman Bibliography Filmography Index