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Screening the Posthuman

Autor Missy Molloy, Pansy Duncan, Claire Henry
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 iul 2023
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780197538579
ISBN-10: 0197538576
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: 90 b&w halftones
Dimensiuni: 237 x 156 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Recenzii

In summary, Pansy Duncan, Claire Henry, and Missy Molloy have fashioned an impressive critical exercise on posthuman theory that will surely serve as a crucial text and foundational source of scholarship in the emerging, evolving discourse in our collective engagement with the posthuman, in an ever decentralized contemporary understanding of what it means to be human.
The book thus serves as a foundational text for scholars interested in the posthuman in cinema, as it not only functions as a useful introduction to critical posthumanism and its cinematic manifestations, but also invites readers to think theoretically beyond the corpus of works analysed here.
The reader comes away with the sense that in its depiction of contemporary life, cinema is cooperating with posthuman studies to decenter the experience of the human, as conceived by liberal humanism.

Notă biografică

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.