Screen Genealogies - From Optical Device to Environmental Medium (Paperback, 0)

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.

General

Imprint:	Amsterdam University Press
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	MediaMatters
Release date:	November 2019
Editors:	Craig Buckley • Rudiger Campe • Francesco Casetti
Contributors:	Noam Elcott • Ruggero Eugeni • Yuriko Furuhata • Gundula Kreuzer • John Peters • Ariel Rogers • Antonio Somaini
Dimensions:	240 x 156 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	328
Edition:	0
ISBN-13:	978-9463729000
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Computing & IT > Computer software packages > Multimedia
LSN:	9463729003
Barcode:	9789463729000

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