Screen Genealogies
From Optical Device to Environmental Medium
Published on 11. November 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
328 pages
978-94-6372-900-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Academic
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
74 s/w Abbildungen
74 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
514 gr
ISBN-13
978-94-6372-900-0 (9789463729000)
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Craig Buckley | Ruediger Campe | Francesco Casetti
Screen Genealogies
From Optical Device to Environmental Medium
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10/2025
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Craig Buckley | Ruediger Campe | Francesco Casetti
Screen Genealogies
From Optical Device to Environmental Medium
E-Book
10/2025
Routledge
€0.00
Available for download
Persons
Craig Buckley is an assistant professor of Modern and Contemporary architecture in the History of Art Department at Yale University. Ruediger Campe is the Alfred C. and Martha F. Mohr Professor of Germanic Languages & Literatures at Yale University. Francesco Casetti is the Thomas E. Donnelly Professor of Humanities and Film and Media Studies at Yale University.
Content
CHAP 00 INTRODUCTION Craig Buckley, Ruediger Campe, and Francesco Casetti SECTION ONE: 'Becoming Screen' CHAP 01 Primal Screens Francesco Casetti, Yale University CHAP 02 'Schutz und Schirm': Screening in German During Early Modern Times Ruediger Campe, Yale University SECTION TWO: Spaces CHAP 03 Face and Screen: Toward a Genealogy of the Media Facade Craig Buckley, Yale University CHAP 04 Sensing Screens: From Surface to Situation Nanna Verhoeff, Utrecht University CHAP 05 'Taking the Plunge': The New Immersive Screens Ariel Rogers, Northwestern University SECTION THREE: Atmospheres CHAP 06 The Atmospheric Screen: Turner, Hazlitt, Ruskin Antonio Somaini, Universite Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 CHAP 07 The Fog Medium: Visualizing and Engineering the Atmosphere Yuriko Furuhata, McGill University CHAP 08 The Charge of a Light Barricade: Optics and Ballistics in the Ambiguous Being of Screens John Durham Peters, Yale University SECTION FOUR: Formats CHAP 09 Flat Bayreuth: A Genealogy of Opera as Screened Gundula Kreuzer, Yale University CHAP 10 Imaginary Screens: The Hypnotic Gesture and Early Film Ruggero Eugeni, Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Milan CHAP 11 Material. Human. Divine. Notes on the Vertical Screen Noam M. Elcott, Columbia University INDEX