Screening the Posthuman

Missy Molloy, Pansy Duncan, Claire Henry (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2023
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-753857-9 (ISBN)

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From AI to climate change, recent technological, ecological, cultural, and social 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.

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.

Missy Molloy is Senior Lecturer in Film at Victoria University of Wellington in Aotearoa New Zealand. Pansy Duncan is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Massey University in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. Claire Henry is Lecturer in Screen at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia.

Introduction
Pansy Duncan, Claire Henry and Missy Molloy

1. Posthuman as Genre
Pansy Duncan, Claire Henry and Missy Molloy

2. Envisioning Posthuman Apocalypse
Missy Molloy

3. From Cyborg Theory to Posthuman Mothers
Missy Molloy

4. Queer Posthumanism
Claire Henry

5. The Cinematic Convergence of Posthuman and Crip Perspectives
Pansy Duncan and Missy Molloy

6. Post-anthropocentrism: Rejecting Human Exceptionalism
Claire Henry

7. The Eco-material Posthuman in the Age of the Anthropocene
Pansy Duncan

Conclusion
Pansy Duncan, Claire Henry and Missy Molloy

Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	31.05.2023
Zusatzinfo	90 b&w halftones
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	237 x 156 mm
Gewicht	472 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-19-753857-6 / 0197538576
ISBN-13	978-0-19-753857-9 / 9780197538579
Zustand	Neuware