Screen Genealogies: From Optical Device to Environmental Medium (Paperback)

INTRODUCTION Craig Buckley, Rudiger Campe, and Francesco Casetti SECTION ONE: 'Becoming Screen' CHAP 1 Primal Screens Francesco Casetti, Yale University CHAP 2 'Schutz und Schirm': Screening in German During Early Modern Times Rudiger Campe, Yale University SECTION TWO: Spaces CHAP 3 Face and Screen: Toward a Genealogy of the Media Facade Craig Buckley, Yale University CHAP 4 Sensing Screens: From Surface to Situation Nanna Verhoeff, Utrecht University CHAP 5 'Taking the Plunge': The New Immersive Screens Ariel Rogers, Northwestern University SECTION THREE: Atmospheres CHAP 6 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 8 The Charge of a Light Barricade: Optics and Ballistics in the Ambiguous Being of Screens John Durham Peters, Yale University SECTION FOUR: Formats CHAP 9 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