The screen media reader : culture, theory, practice / edited by Stephen Monteiro.

Contributor(s): Monteiro, Stephen [editor of compilation.]
Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017Description: xxi, 466 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781501311697 (hardback); 9781501311703 (paperback)Subject(s): Mass media and history | Mass media -- Technological innovations -- Social aspects | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media StudiesDDC classification: 302.23 LOC classification: P96.H55 | S37 2017Other classification: SOC052000
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Screens and Their Histories-- Introduction to Section One 1.1 Screen Identities Charles R. Acland (Concordia University, Canada), "The Crack in the Electric Window" -- Francesco Casetti (Yale University, USA), "What Is a Screen Nowadays?" -- Sean Cubitt (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK), "Current Screens" -- Anne Friedberg (University of Southern California, USA), "The Multiple" -- William Henry Fox Talbot (Inventor of the calotype process, UK), "The Magic Mirror" 1.2 Evolution and Revolution Plato, from The Republic -- Erkki Huhtamo (UCLA, USA), "Screenology; or, Media Archaeology of the Screen" -- Lev Manovich (CUNY, USA), "A Screen's Genealogy" -- Edmond Couchot (Digital Artist and Art Theoretician, France), "The Ordered Mosaic, or The Screen Overtaken by Computation" -- Uta Caspary (Art Historian/Architecture Critic, Germany), "Digital Media as Ornament in Contemporary Architecture Facades: Its Historical Dimension"
Section Two: Images and Frames Introduction to Section Two -- 2.1 The Production of Images Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre ('Father of Photography', France), "Description of the Process of Painting and Lighting in...Pictures of the Diorama" -- Lara Baladi (MIT, USA), "When Seeing is Belonging: The Photography of Tahrir" -- Ron Burnett (Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Canada), "Building New Worlds" -- Brad Chisholm (St. Cloud University, USA), "On-Screen Screens" -- Sarah Atkinson (King's College London, UK), "Mobile Cinema" -- Marcel Proust, from Swann's Way 2.2 Terms of Display Giambattista della Porta, from Natural Magick: in XX Bookes -- Frederick Kiesler (Architect, Ukraine), Building a Cinema Theatre -- Jean-Louis Baudry, "Ideological Effects of the Basic Cinematographic Apparatus" -- Harper Cossar (Emory College, USA), "The Shape of New Media: Screen Space, Aspect Ratios, and Digitextuality" -- Stephen Monteiro (The American University in Paris, France), "Fit to Frame: Image and Edge in Contemporary Interfaces" -- Mitchell Whitelaw (University of Canberra, Australia), "After the Screen: Array Aesthetics and Transmateriality"
Section Three: Environments and Interactions Introduction to Section Three -- 3.1 Moments of Interface O. Winter, "The Section Three: Environments and Interactions Introduction to Section Three -- 3.1 Moments of Interface O. Winter, "The Cinematograph" -- Paul Frosh (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel), "The Face of Television" -- Douglas Engelbart, from Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework -- Heidi Rae Cooley (University of South Carolina, USA), "It's all about the Fit: The Hand, the Mobile Screenic Device and Tactile Vision" -- Alexandra Schneider (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany), "The iPhone as an Object of Knowledge" -- Virginie Sonet (Université Paris II - Panthéon-Assas, France), "The Smartphone Screen in All Its States" -- Amy Herzog (Queens College, CUNY, USA), "In the Flesh: Space and Embodiment in the Pornographic Peep Show Arcade" 3.2 Systems and Networks Haidee Wasson (Concordia University, Canada), "The Other Small Screen: Moving Images at New York's World Fair, 1939" -- Anna McCarthy (New York University, USA), "From Screen to Site: Television's Material Culture, and Its Place" -- Onookome Okome (University of Alberta, Canada), "Nollywood: Spectatorship, Audience and the Sites of Consumption" -- Stan VanDerBeek (Experimental Filmmaker, USA), "'Culture: Intercom' and Expanded Cinema: A Proposal and Manifesto" -- Robert Edgar, "The Aesthetics of the Arena: Live and Recorded" -- Nanna Verhoeff (Utrecht University, The Netherlands), "Performative Cartography".
Summary: "Offers key historical and interpretative texts on the development and role of "the screen" in communications and the social sphere"-- Provided by publisher.
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"Offers key historical and interpretative texts on the development and role of "the screen" in communications and the social sphere"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Screens and Their Histories-- Introduction to Section One 1.1 Screen Identities Charles R. Acland (Concordia University, Canada), "The Crack in the Electric Window" -- Francesco Casetti (Yale University, USA), "What Is a Screen Nowadays?" -- Sean Cubitt (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK), "Current Screens" -- Anne Friedberg (University of Southern California, USA), "The Multiple" -- William Henry Fox Talbot (Inventor of the calotype process, UK), "The Magic Mirror" 1.2 Evolution and Revolution Plato, from The Republic -- Erkki Huhtamo (UCLA, USA), "Screenology; or, Media Archaeology of the Screen" -- Lev Manovich (CUNY, USA), "A Screen's Genealogy" -- Edmond Couchot (Digital Artist and Art Theoretician, France), "The Ordered Mosaic, or The Screen Overtaken by Computation" -- Uta Caspary (Art Historian/Architecture Critic, Germany), "Digital Media as Ornament in Contemporary Architecture Facades: Its Historical Dimension"

Section Two: Images and Frames Introduction to Section Two -- 2.1 The Production of Images Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre ('Father of Photography', France), "Description of the Process of Painting and Lighting in...Pictures of the Diorama" -- Lara Baladi (MIT, USA), "When Seeing is Belonging: The Photography of Tahrir" -- Ron Burnett (Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Canada), "Building New Worlds" -- Brad Chisholm (St. Cloud University, USA), "On-Screen Screens" -- Sarah Atkinson (King's College London, UK), "Mobile Cinema" -- Marcel Proust, from Swann's Way 2.2 Terms of Display Giambattista della Porta, from Natural Magick: in XX Bookes -- Frederick Kiesler (Architect, Ukraine), Building a Cinema Theatre -- Jean-Louis Baudry, "Ideological Effects of the Basic Cinematographic Apparatus" -- Harper Cossar (Emory College, USA), "The Shape of New Media: Screen Space, Aspect Ratios, and Digitextuality" -- Stephen Monteiro (The American University in Paris, France), "Fit to Frame: Image and Edge in Contemporary Interfaces" -- Mitchell Whitelaw (University of Canberra, Australia), "After the Screen: Array Aesthetics and Transmateriality"

Section Three: Environments and Interactions Introduction to Section Three -- 3.1 Moments of Interface O. Winter, "The Section Three: Environments and Interactions Introduction to Section Three -- 3.1 Moments of Interface O. Winter, "The Cinematograph" -- Paul Frosh (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel), "The Face of Television" -- Douglas Engelbart, from Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework -- Heidi Rae Cooley (University of South Carolina, USA), "It's all about the Fit: The Hand, the Mobile Screenic Device and Tactile Vision" -- Alexandra Schneider (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany), "The iPhone as an Object of Knowledge" -- Virginie Sonet (Université Paris II - Panthéon-Assas, France), "The Smartphone Screen in All Its States" -- Amy Herzog (Queens College, CUNY, USA), "In the Flesh: Space and Embodiment in the Pornographic Peep Show Arcade" 3.2 Systems and Networks Haidee Wasson (Concordia University, Canada), "The Other Small Screen: Moving Images at New York's World Fair, 1939" -- Anna McCarthy (New York University, USA), "From Screen to Site: Television's Material Culture, and Its Place" -- Onookome Okome (University of Alberta, Canada), "Nollywood: Spectatorship, Audience and the Sites of Consumption" -- Stan VanDerBeek (Experimental Filmmaker, USA), "'Culture: Intercom' and Expanded Cinema: A Proposal and Manifesto" -- Robert Edgar, "The Aesthetics of the Arena: Live and Recorded" -- Nanna Verhoeff (Utrecht University, The Netherlands), "Performative Cartography".

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