The Palgrave Handbook of Posthumanism in Film and Television
Herausgegeben:Hauskeller, Michael; Carbonell, Curtis D.; Philbeck, Thomas D.
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What does popular culture's relationship with cyborgs, robots, vampires and zombies tell us about being human? Insightful scholarly perspectives shine a light on how film and television evince and portray the philosophical roots, the social ramifications and the future visions of a posthumanist world.
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What does popular culture's relationship with cyborgs, robots, vampires and zombies tell us about being human? Insightful scholarly perspectives shine a light on how film and television evince and portray the philosophical roots, the social ramifications and the future visions of a posthumanist world.
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- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
- Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-43031-1
- 1st ed. 2015
- Seitenzahl: 450
- Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2015
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 242mm x 164mm x 32mm
- Gewicht: 819g
- ISBN-13: 9781137430311
- ISBN-10: 1137430311
- Artikelnr.: 42459840
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Libri GmbH
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- 06621 890
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
- Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-43031-1
- 1st ed. 2015
- Seitenzahl: 450
- Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2015
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 242mm x 164mm x 32mm
- Gewicht: 819g
- ISBN-13: 9781137430311
- ISBN-10: 1137430311
- Artikelnr.: 42459840
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Libri GmbH
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- 06621 890
Drew Ayers, Santa Barbara City College, USA Babette Babich, Fordham University, USA Jon Baldwin, London Metropolitan University, UK Douglas Brown, Falmouth University, UK William Brown, University of Roehampton, UK John Bruni, Grand Valley State University, USA Ivan Callus, University of Malta Curtis D. Carbonell, Khalifa University, UAE Steen Ledet Christiansen, Aalborg University, Denmark Jay Clayton, Vanderbilt University, USA T. Hugh Crawford, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA James DiGiovanna, CUNY, USA Francesca Ferrando, New York University, USA Elaine Graham, University of Chester, UK Graham Harman, American University in Cairo, Egypt Dan Hassler-Forest, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Michael Hauskeller, University of Exeter, UK Phil Henderson, University of Victoria, Canada Stefan Herbrechter, Heidelberg University, Germany Eric Hill, Winthrop University, USA James Hughes, Trinity College, USA Joel Krueger, University of Exeter, UK Tanya Krzywinska, Falmouth University, UK Kevin LaGrandeur, New York Institute of Technology, USA Tarja Laine, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Brett Lunceford, Rhetorical Scholar, USA Teodora Manea, University of Exeter, UK David Meeler, Winthrop University, USA Jeff Menne, Oklahoma State University, USA Pramod K. Nayar, University of Hyderabad, India Dónal P O'Mathúna, Dublin City University, Ireland Alexander D. Ornella, University of Hull, UK Thomas D. Philbeck, World Economic Forum, Geneva Anat Pick, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Ralph Pordzik, Würzburg University, Germany Anna Powell, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK David Roden, Open University, UK Rhys Owain Thomas, University of East Anglia, UK Sherryl Vint, University of California, Riverside, USA Hilary Wheaton, University of Exeter, UK Hub Zwart, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
Notes on Contributors
1. Posthumanism in Film and Television; Michael Hauskeller, Thomas D.
Philbeck and Curtis D. Carbonell
PART I: PAVING THE WAY TO POSTHUMANISM: THE PRECURSORS
2. From DelGuat to ScarJo; William Brown
3. Self-Immolation by Technology. Jean Baudrillard and the Posthuman in
Film and Television; Jon Baldwin
4. Derrida on Screen; Stefan Herbrechter
5. Bruno Latour: From the Nonmodern to the Posthuman; T. Hugh Crawford
6. Friedrich Nietzsche and the Transhuman in Film and Television; Babette
Babich
PART II: VARIETIES OF PEOPLE-TO-COME: POSTHUMAN BECOMINGS
7. Terminated: The Life and Death of the Cyborg in Film and Television;
Rhys Owain Thomas
8. Of Iron Men and Green Monsters: Superheroes and Posthumanism; Dan
Hassler-Forest
9. Growing Your Own: Monsters from the Lab and Molecular Ethics in
Post-Humanist Film; Anna Powell
10. Post-Singularity Entities in Film and TV; David Roden
11. Chimeras and Hybrids. The Digital Swarms of the Posthuman Image; Drew
Ayers
PART III: RISE OF THE MACHINES: POSTHUMAN INTELLECTS
12: Androids and the Posthuman in Television and Film; Kevin LaGrandeur
13. 'Change for the Machines'? Posthumanism as Digital Sentience; Sherryl
Vint
14. Alive in the Net; Jay Clayton and Jeff Menne
15. Autonomous Fighting Machines. Narratives and Ethics; Donal O'Mathuna
PART IV: BODY AND SOUL: POSTHUMAN SUBJECTIVITIES
16. Contest of Tropes. Screened Posthuman Subjectivities; Curtis D.
Carbonell
17. Representations of Cybersex in Film and Television; Hilary Wheaton
18. At Home In and Beyond Our Skin: Posthuman Embodiment; Joel Krueger
19. Constructed Worlds. Posthumanism in Film, Television and Other
Cosmopoietic Media; Ivan Callus
20. Tanya Krzywinska & Douglas Brown, Games, Gamers, and Posthumanism
PART V: BETTER HUMANS: POSTHUMAN CAPACITIES
21. 'Life's a Bitch, and Then You Don't Die.' Postmortality in Film and
Television; Michael Hauskeller
22. A New Lease on Life: A Lacanian Analysis of Cognitive Enhancement
Cinema; Hub Zwart
23. Limitless? There's a Pill for That; Kyle McNease
24. Posthumans and Democracy in Popular Culture; James Hughes
25. Negative Feelings as Emotional Enhancement; Tarja Laine
PART VI: CREATING DIFFERENCE AND IDENTITY: POSTHUMAN COMMUNITIES
26. Biopleasures. Posthumanism and the Technological Imaginary in Utopian
and Dystopian Film; Ralph Pordzik
27. Of Posthuman Born. Gender, Utopia, and the Posthuman, in Films and TV;
Francesca Ferrando
28. Sharing Social Context: Is Community with the Posthuman Possible?;
David Meeler and Eric Hill
29. Our Posthuman Skin Condition; Teodora Manea
30. Muddy Worlds: Re-Viewing Environmental Narratives; John Bruni
PART VII: US AND THEM: POSTHUMAN RELATIONSHIPS
31. Executing Species: Animal Attractions in Thomas Edison and Douglas
Gordon; Anat Pick
32. The Sun Never Set on the Human Empire: Haunts of Humanism in the Films;
Phil Henderson
33. Uncanny Intimacies. Human and Machines in Film; Alexander Darius
Ornella
34. Posthumanous Subjects; Steen Christiansen
35. Identity: Difficulties, Discontinuities and Pluralities of Personhood;
James DiGiovanna
PART VIII: MORE HUMAN THAN HUMAN: POSTHUMAN ONTOLOGIES
36. The Final Frontier? Religion and Posthumanism in Film and Television;
Elaine Graham
37. The Ghost in the Machine. Humanity and the Problem of Self-Aware
Information; Brett Lunceford
38. Trust a Few, Fear the Rest: the Anxiety and Fantasy of Human Evolution;
Pramod K. Nayar
39. The Posthumanist Paradigm Shift in Film and Television; Thomas D.
Philbeck
40. Object Oriented Ontology; Graham Harman
Bibliography
Filmography
Index
1. Posthumanism in Film and Television; Michael Hauskeller, Thomas D.
Philbeck and Curtis D. Carbonell
PART I: PAVING THE WAY TO POSTHUMANISM: THE PRECURSORS
2. From DelGuat to ScarJo; William Brown
3. Self-Immolation by Technology. Jean Baudrillard and the Posthuman in
Film and Television; Jon Baldwin
4. Derrida on Screen; Stefan Herbrechter
5. Bruno Latour: From the Nonmodern to the Posthuman; T. Hugh Crawford
6. Friedrich Nietzsche and the Transhuman in Film and Television; Babette
Babich
PART II: VARIETIES OF PEOPLE-TO-COME: POSTHUMAN BECOMINGS
7. Terminated: The Life and Death of the Cyborg in Film and Television;
Rhys Owain Thomas
8. Of Iron Men and Green Monsters: Superheroes and Posthumanism; Dan
Hassler-Forest
9. Growing Your Own: Monsters from the Lab and Molecular Ethics in
Post-Humanist Film; Anna Powell
10. Post-Singularity Entities in Film and TV; David Roden
11. Chimeras and Hybrids. The Digital Swarms of the Posthuman Image; Drew
Ayers
PART III: RISE OF THE MACHINES: POSTHUMAN INTELLECTS
12: Androids and the Posthuman in Television and Film; Kevin LaGrandeur
13. 'Change for the Machines'? Posthumanism as Digital Sentience; Sherryl
Vint
14. Alive in the Net; Jay Clayton and Jeff Menne
15. Autonomous Fighting Machines. Narratives and Ethics; Donal O'Mathuna
PART IV: BODY AND SOUL: POSTHUMAN SUBJECTIVITIES
16. Contest of Tropes. Screened Posthuman Subjectivities; Curtis D.
Carbonell
17. Representations of Cybersex in Film and Television; Hilary Wheaton
18. At Home In and Beyond Our Skin: Posthuman Embodiment; Joel Krueger
19. Constructed Worlds. Posthumanism in Film, Television and Other
Cosmopoietic Media; Ivan Callus
20. Tanya Krzywinska & Douglas Brown, Games, Gamers, and Posthumanism
PART V: BETTER HUMANS: POSTHUMAN CAPACITIES
21. 'Life's a Bitch, and Then You Don't Die.' Postmortality in Film and
Television; Michael Hauskeller
22. A New Lease on Life: A Lacanian Analysis of Cognitive Enhancement
Cinema; Hub Zwart
23. Limitless? There's a Pill for That; Kyle McNease
24. Posthumans and Democracy in Popular Culture; James Hughes
25. Negative Feelings as Emotional Enhancement; Tarja Laine
PART VI: CREATING DIFFERENCE AND IDENTITY: POSTHUMAN COMMUNITIES
26. Biopleasures. Posthumanism and the Technological Imaginary in Utopian
and Dystopian Film; Ralph Pordzik
27. Of Posthuman Born. Gender, Utopia, and the Posthuman, in Films and TV;
Francesca Ferrando
28. Sharing Social Context: Is Community with the Posthuman Possible?;
David Meeler and Eric Hill
29. Our Posthuman Skin Condition; Teodora Manea
30. Muddy Worlds: Re-Viewing Environmental Narratives; John Bruni
PART VII: US AND THEM: POSTHUMAN RELATIONSHIPS
31. Executing Species: Animal Attractions in Thomas Edison and Douglas
Gordon; Anat Pick
32. The Sun Never Set on the Human Empire: Haunts of Humanism in the Films;
Phil Henderson
33. Uncanny Intimacies. Human and Machines in Film; Alexander Darius
Ornella
34. Posthumanous Subjects; Steen Christiansen
35. Identity: Difficulties, Discontinuities and Pluralities of Personhood;
James DiGiovanna
PART VIII: MORE HUMAN THAN HUMAN: POSTHUMAN ONTOLOGIES
36. The Final Frontier? Religion and Posthumanism in Film and Television;
Elaine Graham
37. The Ghost in the Machine. Humanity and the Problem of Self-Aware
Information; Brett Lunceford
38. Trust a Few, Fear the Rest: the Anxiety and Fantasy of Human Evolution;
Pramod K. Nayar
39. The Posthumanist Paradigm Shift in Film and Television; Thomas D.
Philbeck
40. Object Oriented Ontology; Graham Harman
Bibliography
Filmography
Index
Notes on Contributors
1. Posthumanism in Film and Television; Michael Hauskeller, Thomas D.
Philbeck and Curtis D. Carbonell
PART I: PAVING THE WAY TO POSTHUMANISM: THE PRECURSORS
2. From DelGuat to ScarJo; William Brown
3. Self-Immolation by Technology. Jean Baudrillard and the Posthuman in
Film and Television; Jon Baldwin
4. Derrida on Screen; Stefan Herbrechter
5. Bruno Latour: From the Nonmodern to the Posthuman; T. Hugh Crawford
6. Friedrich Nietzsche and the Transhuman in Film and Television; Babette
Babich
PART II: VARIETIES OF PEOPLE-TO-COME: POSTHUMAN BECOMINGS
7. Terminated: The Life and Death of the Cyborg in Film and Television;
Rhys Owain Thomas
8. Of Iron Men and Green Monsters: Superheroes and Posthumanism; Dan
Hassler-Forest
9. Growing Your Own: Monsters from the Lab and Molecular Ethics in
Post-Humanist Film; Anna Powell
10. Post-Singularity Entities in Film and TV; David Roden
11. Chimeras and Hybrids. The Digital Swarms of the Posthuman Image; Drew
Ayers
PART III: RISE OF THE MACHINES: POSTHUMAN INTELLECTS
12: Androids and the Posthuman in Television and Film; Kevin LaGrandeur
13. 'Change for the Machines'? Posthumanism as Digital Sentience; Sherryl
Vint
14. Alive in the Net; Jay Clayton and Jeff Menne
15. Autonomous Fighting Machines. Narratives and Ethics; Donal O'Mathuna
PART IV: BODY AND SOUL: POSTHUMAN SUBJECTIVITIES
16. Contest of Tropes. Screened Posthuman Subjectivities; Curtis D.
Carbonell
17. Representations of Cybersex in Film and Television; Hilary Wheaton
18. At Home In and Beyond Our Skin: Posthuman Embodiment; Joel Krueger
19. Constructed Worlds. Posthumanism in Film, Television and Other
Cosmopoietic Media; Ivan Callus
20. Tanya Krzywinska & Douglas Brown, Games, Gamers, and Posthumanism
PART V: BETTER HUMANS: POSTHUMAN CAPACITIES
21. 'Life's a Bitch, and Then You Don't Die.' Postmortality in Film and
Television; Michael Hauskeller
22. A New Lease on Life: A Lacanian Analysis of Cognitive Enhancement
Cinema; Hub Zwart
23. Limitless? There's a Pill for That; Kyle McNease
24. Posthumans and Democracy in Popular Culture; James Hughes
25. Negative Feelings as Emotional Enhancement; Tarja Laine
PART VI: CREATING DIFFERENCE AND IDENTITY: POSTHUMAN COMMUNITIES
26. Biopleasures. Posthumanism and the Technological Imaginary in Utopian
and Dystopian Film; Ralph Pordzik
27. Of Posthuman Born. Gender, Utopia, and the Posthuman, in Films and TV;
Francesca Ferrando
28. Sharing Social Context: Is Community with the Posthuman Possible?;
David Meeler and Eric Hill
29. Our Posthuman Skin Condition; Teodora Manea
30. Muddy Worlds: Re-Viewing Environmental Narratives; John Bruni
PART VII: US AND THEM: POSTHUMAN RELATIONSHIPS
31. Executing Species: Animal Attractions in Thomas Edison and Douglas
Gordon; Anat Pick
32. The Sun Never Set on the Human Empire: Haunts of Humanism in the Films;
Phil Henderson
33. Uncanny Intimacies. Human and Machines in Film; Alexander Darius
Ornella
34. Posthumanous Subjects; Steen Christiansen
35. Identity: Difficulties, Discontinuities and Pluralities of Personhood;
James DiGiovanna
PART VIII: MORE HUMAN THAN HUMAN: POSTHUMAN ONTOLOGIES
36. The Final Frontier? Religion and Posthumanism in Film and Television;
Elaine Graham
37. The Ghost in the Machine. Humanity and the Problem of Self-Aware
Information; Brett Lunceford
38. Trust a Few, Fear the Rest: the Anxiety and Fantasy of Human Evolution;
Pramod K. Nayar
39. The Posthumanist Paradigm Shift in Film and Television; Thomas D.
Philbeck
40. Object Oriented Ontology; Graham Harman
Bibliography
Filmography
Index
1. Posthumanism in Film and Television; Michael Hauskeller, Thomas D.
Philbeck and Curtis D. Carbonell
PART I: PAVING THE WAY TO POSTHUMANISM: THE PRECURSORS
2. From DelGuat to ScarJo; William Brown
3. Self-Immolation by Technology. Jean Baudrillard and the Posthuman in
Film and Television; Jon Baldwin
4. Derrida on Screen; Stefan Herbrechter
5. Bruno Latour: From the Nonmodern to the Posthuman; T. Hugh Crawford
6. Friedrich Nietzsche and the Transhuman in Film and Television; Babette
Babich
PART II: VARIETIES OF PEOPLE-TO-COME: POSTHUMAN BECOMINGS
7. Terminated: The Life and Death of the Cyborg in Film and Television;
Rhys Owain Thomas
8. Of Iron Men and Green Monsters: Superheroes and Posthumanism; Dan
Hassler-Forest
9. Growing Your Own: Monsters from the Lab and Molecular Ethics in
Post-Humanist Film; Anna Powell
10. Post-Singularity Entities in Film and TV; David Roden
11. Chimeras and Hybrids. The Digital Swarms of the Posthuman Image; Drew
Ayers
PART III: RISE OF THE MACHINES: POSTHUMAN INTELLECTS
12: Androids and the Posthuman in Television and Film; Kevin LaGrandeur
13. 'Change for the Machines'? Posthumanism as Digital Sentience; Sherryl
Vint
14. Alive in the Net; Jay Clayton and Jeff Menne
15. Autonomous Fighting Machines. Narratives and Ethics; Donal O'Mathuna
PART IV: BODY AND SOUL: POSTHUMAN SUBJECTIVITIES
16. Contest of Tropes. Screened Posthuman Subjectivities; Curtis D.
Carbonell
17. Representations of Cybersex in Film and Television; Hilary Wheaton
18. At Home In and Beyond Our Skin: Posthuman Embodiment; Joel Krueger
19. Constructed Worlds. Posthumanism in Film, Television and Other
Cosmopoietic Media; Ivan Callus
20. Tanya Krzywinska & Douglas Brown, Games, Gamers, and Posthumanism
PART V: BETTER HUMANS: POSTHUMAN CAPACITIES
21. 'Life's a Bitch, and Then You Don't Die.' Postmortality in Film and
Television; Michael Hauskeller
22. A New Lease on Life: A Lacanian Analysis of Cognitive Enhancement
Cinema; Hub Zwart
23. Limitless? There's a Pill for That; Kyle McNease
24. Posthumans and Democracy in Popular Culture; James Hughes
25. Negative Feelings as Emotional Enhancement; Tarja Laine
PART VI: CREATING DIFFERENCE AND IDENTITY: POSTHUMAN COMMUNITIES
26. Biopleasures. Posthumanism and the Technological Imaginary in Utopian
and Dystopian Film; Ralph Pordzik
27. Of Posthuman Born. Gender, Utopia, and the Posthuman, in Films and TV;
Francesca Ferrando
28. Sharing Social Context: Is Community with the Posthuman Possible?;
David Meeler and Eric Hill
29. Our Posthuman Skin Condition; Teodora Manea
30. Muddy Worlds: Re-Viewing Environmental Narratives; John Bruni
PART VII: US AND THEM: POSTHUMAN RELATIONSHIPS
31. Executing Species: Animal Attractions in Thomas Edison and Douglas
Gordon; Anat Pick
32. The Sun Never Set on the Human Empire: Haunts of Humanism in the Films;
Phil Henderson
33. Uncanny Intimacies. Human and Machines in Film; Alexander Darius
Ornella
34. Posthumanous Subjects; Steen Christiansen
35. Identity: Difficulties, Discontinuities and Pluralities of Personhood;
James DiGiovanna
PART VIII: MORE HUMAN THAN HUMAN: POSTHUMAN ONTOLOGIES
36. The Final Frontier? Religion and Posthumanism in Film and Television;
Elaine Graham
37. The Ghost in the Machine. Humanity and the Problem of Self-Aware
Information; Brett Lunceford
38. Trust a Few, Fear the Rest: the Anxiety and Fantasy of Human Evolution;
Pramod K. Nayar
39. The Posthumanist Paradigm Shift in Film and Television; Thomas D.
Philbeck
40. Object Oriented Ontology; Graham Harman
Bibliography
Filmography
Index