The Cinema of Things
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-5249-2 (ISBN)
Consumer culture, a key feature of globalization, posits that we must supplement ourselves with commodities without which we would otherwise be incomplete: but these prostheses, rather than enhancing us, end up creating the insufficiencies they were meant to overcome. We are engulfed by objects, to the extent that we ourselves are becoming objectified. At the same time, objects, especially technological objects, are becoming increasingly autonomous, assuming roles that were once the preserve of human agency. We are becoming the objects of globalization, and cinema imaginatively represents this transformation, but it also offers us the possibility of retaining our humanity in the process.
Elizabeth Ezra is Professor of Cinema and Culture at the University of Stirling in Scotland. Major publications include: The Colonial Unconscious (2000); Georges Méliès: The Birth of the Auteur (2000); Jean-Pierre Jeunet (2008); European Cinema (2004); and Transnational Cinema: The Film Reader (2006) as well as numerous contributions to scholarly journals including Screen and Yale French Studies. Current work includes projects on screen tests and on the posthuman in children’s literature and cinema.
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Cinema, Globalization and the Posthuman Object
Chapter 1: Consuming Objects
Chapter 2: Exotic Objects
Chapter 3: Part Objects: War, Disavowal, and the Logic of Substitution
Chapter 4: Objects of Desire
Chapter 5: Posthuman Objects
Bibliography
Filmography
Erscheinungsdatum | 07.06.2019 |
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Zusatzinfo | 20 bw illus |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 299 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-5013-5249-0 / 1501352490 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-5013-5249-2 / 9781501352492 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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