Screen Genealogies From Optical Device to Environmental Medium /

Screen Genealogies From Optical Device to Environmental Medium /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020 Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000 2020
Description:	1 online resource (327 pages) : illustrations.
Language:	English
Series:	MediaMatters MediaMatters. Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subject:	Mass media. Information technology -- Social aspects. Information technology -- Social aspects Mass media
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12380539

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Other authors / contributors:	Casetti, Francesco, editor. Campe, Rüdiger, editor. Buckley, Craig, editor. Project Muse, distributor.
ISBN:	9789048543953 9048543959
Notes:	Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE. Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record.
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. 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.
Other form:	Print version: 9789463729000

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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. 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.
Item Description:	Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (327 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9789048543953 9048543959