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1 online resource (327 pages) : illustrations |
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text txt rdacontent |
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computer c rdamedia |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
| Series |
MediaMatters |
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MediaMatters.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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. An intermedial genealogy stressing transformation and descent rather than origins and roots emphasizes that the understanding of the screen as optical surface was but one instance in a larger set of intersecting and competing definitions. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Language |
English. |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Primal Screens -- 2. 'Schutz und Schirm': Screening in German During Early Modern Times -- 3. Face and Screen: Toward a Genealogy of the Media Façade -- 4. Sensing Screens: From Surface to Situation -- 5. 'Taking the Plunge': The New Immersive Screens -- 6. The Atmospheric Screen: Turner, Hazlitt, Ruskin -- 7. The Fog Medium: Visualizing and Engineering the Atmosphere -- 8. The Charge of a Light Barricade: Optics and Ballistics in the Ambiguous Being of Screens -- 9. Flat Bayreuth: A Genealogy of Opera as Screened -- 10. Imaginary Screens: The Hypnotic Gesture and Early Film -- 11. Material. Human. Divine. Notes on the Vertical Screen -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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Visual communication.
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Digital communications.
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Information display systems.
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Data Display |
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Communication visuelle.
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Transmission numérique.
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Affichage (Technique)
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Media studies.
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Digital lifestyle.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
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Digital communications
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Information display systems
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Visual communication
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| Indexed Term |
Screens, Media Archeology, Environmental Media, Visual Studies,. |
| Added Author |
Buckley, Craig, editor.
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Campe, Rüdiger, editor.
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Casetti, Francesco, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Screen genealogies. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019] 9463729003 (OCoLC)1105944213 |
| ISBN |
9789048543953 (electronic bk.) |
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9048543959 (electronic bk.) |
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9463729003 |
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9789463729000 |
| Standard No. |
10.5117/9789463729000 doi |
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AU@ 000066420631 |
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