Performing Brains on Screen deals with film enactments and
representations of the belief that human beings are essentially
their brains, a belief that embodies one of the most influential
modern ways of understanding the human. Films have performed brains
in two chief ways: by turning physical brains into protagonists, as
in the "brain movies" of the 1950s, which show terrestrial or
extra-terrestrial disembodied brains carrying out their evil
intentions; or by giving brains that remain unseen inside someone's
head an explicitly major role, as in brain transplantation films or
their successors since the 1980s, in which brain contents are
transferred and manipulated by means of information technology.
Through an analysis of filmic genres and particular movies,
Performing Brains on Screen documents this neglected filmic
universe, and demonstrates how the cinema has functioned as a
cultural space where a core notion of the contemporary world has
been rehearsed and problematized.
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