The Screen Media Reader: Culture, Theory, Practice
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As mobile communication, social media, wireless networks, and flexible user interfaces become prominent topics in the study of media and culture, the screen emerges as a critical research area. This reader brings together insightful and influential texts from a variety of sources–theorists, researchers, critics, inventors, and artists–that explore the screen as a fundamental element not only in popular culture but also in our very understanding of society and the world. The Screen Media Reader is a foundational resource for studying the screen and its cultural impact. Through key contemporary and historical texts addressing the screen’s development and role in communications and the social sphere, it considers how the screen functions as an idea, an object, and an everyday experience. Reflecting a number of descriptive and analytical approaches, these essays illustrate the astonishing range and depth of the screen’s introduction and application in multiple media configurations and contexts. Together they demonstrate the long-standing influence of the screen as a cultural concept and communication tool that extends well beyond contemporary debates over screen saturation and addiction. Cover Contents List of Figures Preface Acknowledgments Permissions Editor’s Note Introduction Section One Screens and Their Histories Introduction to Section One Screen Identities 1 The Crack in the Electric Window 2 What Is a Screen Nowadays? 3 Current Screens 4 The Multiple 5 The Magic Mirror Evolution and Revolution 6 From The Republic 7 Screenology; or, Media Archaeology of the Screen 8 A Screen’s Genealogy 9 The Ordered Mosaic, or the Screen Overtaken by Computation 10 Digital Media as Ornament in Contemporary Architecture Facades: Its Historical Dimension Section TWO Images and Frames Introduction to Section Two The Production of Images 11 Description of the Process of Painting and Lighting in … Pictures of the Diorama 12 When Seeing Is Belonging: The Photography of Tahrir 13 Building New Worlds 14 On-Screen Screens 15 Mobile Cinema 16 From Swann’s Way Terms of Display 17 From Natural Magick: in XX Bookes 18 Building a Cinema Theatre 19 Ideological Effects of the Basic Cinematographic Apparatus 20 The Shape of New Media: Screen Space, Aspect Ratios, and Digitextuality 21 Fit to Frame: Image and Edge in Contemporary Interfaces 22 After the Screen: Array Aesthetics and Transmateriality Section THREE Environments and Interactions Introduction to Section Three Moments of Interface 23 The Cinematograph 24 The Face of Television 25 From Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework 26 It’s All about the Fit: The Hand, the Mobile Screenic Device and Tactile Vision 27 The iPhone as an Object of Knowledge 28 The Smartphone Screen in All Its States 29 In the Flesh: Space and Embodiment in the Pornographic Peep Show Arcade Systems and Networks 30 The Other Small Screen: Moving Images at New York’s World Fair, 1939 31 From Screen to Site: Television’s Material Culture, and Its Place 32 Nollywood: Spectatorship, Audience and the Sites of Consumption 33 “Culture: Intercom” and Expanded Cinema: A Proposal and Manifesto 34 The Aesthetics of the Arena: Live and Recorded 35 Performative Cartography Further Reading Contributors Index
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