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Screening the Posthuman
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Screening the Posthuman
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From AI to climate change, recent technological, ecological, and
cultural transformations have unsettled established assumptions
about the relationship between the human and the more-than-human
world. Screening the Posthuman addresses a heterogenous body of
twenty-first century films that turn to the figure of the
"posthuman" as a means of exploring this development. Through close
analyses of films as diverse as Kûki ningyô [Air Doll] (dir.
Hirokazu Koreeda 2009), Testrol és lélekrol [On Body and Soul]
(dir. Ildiko Enyedi 2017) and Nomadland (dir. Chloé Zhao 2020),
this wide-ranging volume shows that, while often identified as the
remit of science fiction, the posthuman on screen crosses filmic
genres, national contexts, and industrial settings. In the process,
posthuman cinema emphasizes humanity's entanglement in broader
biological, technological, and social worlds and exposes new models
of subjectivity, community, and desire. In advancing these
arguments, Screening the Posthuman draws on scholarship associated
with critical posthumanist theory—an ongoing project unified by a
decentering of the "human". As the first systematic, full-length
application of this body of scholarship to cinema, Screening the
Posthuman advocates for a rigorous posthumanist critique that
avoids both humanist nostalgia and transhumanist fantasy in its
attention to the excitements and anxieties of posthuman experience.
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Imprint: |
Oxford UniversityPress
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
July 2023 |
Authors: |
Missy Molloy
(Senior Lecturer in Film)
• Pansy Duncan
(Senior Lecturer in Media Studies)
• Claire Henry
(Lecturer)
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Dimensions: |
235 x 156mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
320 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-19-753856-2 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-19-753856-8 |
Barcode: |
9780197538562 |
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