Faces on Screen: New Approaches
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Whether we consider the digitally created and manipulated faces of Hollywood cinema or the social media filters, face apps, and surveillance software of everyday life, reading face language has become the seemingly endless task of humans and machines alike.Recent facial controversies – from politicians in blackface to "deep fakes," casting debates, and facial data collection-- have made clear the need for a broader understanding of the face on screen and its varied techniques and effects. This book will consider the screen face from a variety of perspectives, across time periods and media, bringing together essays on topics ranging from early cinema to contemporary digital media – from photogénie to facial recognition, celebrity culture to digital creatures. Itexplores how screen culture builds on and complicates our urge to search the face for answers to our most intractable questions. List of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Facing Forward, Facing Back PART I THE SUM OF ITS PARTS: FEATURES, CODES, PRACTICES 1. The Generic Face: Galton, Muybridge and the Photographic Proof of Race 2. Mad Faces: Coding Features and Expressions of Female Madness in Physiognomy Texts, Asylum Photographs and Early Cinema 3. Elastics of the Film Mouth 4. The Problem of Recognition: Celebrity Faces, Photogénie and Facial Recognition Technologies 5. Emptied Faces: In Search of an Algorithmic Punctum PART II REFRAMING THE CLOSE-UP 6. ‘A Landscape of Faces’: The Farewell and Ecologies of the Face in Independent Asian-American Film 7. The New Transactional Face: Rethinking Post-cinematic Aesthetics through The Neon Demon 8. Black Faces Matter: Close-ups in Selma , Fruitvale Station and Moonlight 9. ‘Sheer Epidermis’: ‘Face Politics’ and the Films of Lynne Ramsay 10. Facing Life in the Open: The (Post)humanist Worldmaking of My Octopus Teacher 11. Bête Noir(e) : Animality, Genre and the Face in Border 12. Hejab as Frame in Ten and Beyond PART III MAKING FACES: CELEBRITY, PERFORMANCE, SELF 13. The Faces of Ginger: Beauty Makeup, Facial Acting and Hollywood Stardom 14. At Face Value: Consuming the Star Image 15. The Face is the Lie that Tells the Truth: Renée Zellweger and the Mediated Politics of Age, Self and Celebrity 16. Mediating the Human in Facial Performance Capture 17. Becoming a Woman: The Many Faces of Candice Breitz 18. The Face as Technology 19. From Holy Grail to Deepfake: The Evolving Digital Face on Screen References Index
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