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Screens and Illusionism explores the effects of illusionism as foundational to contemporary acts of perception and aesthetics. Our point of departure is the acknowledgement that our sensory perception is fundamentally subject to mediation, through a class of objects, techniques, and technologies. We emphasize mediation to consider the loss of optical certainty, and explore illusionism within the register of the uncanny. The volume is divided into three sections: Screens as Perceptual Vehicles (Part I), Mediation and its Avatars (Part II), and Alternative Teleologies of Media (Part III). Overall, the collection resonates with contemporary discussions of screen culture, media materiality and intermediality. It explores an array of pre- and post-cinematic devices and spectacular entertainments, forging links between old and new media, and across media formats.
Contents
1. Introduction - Peter J. Bloom and Dominique Jullien
Part I: Screens as perceptual vehicles
2. Does Size Matter? Screens, Illusions, and Moving Picture Dispositives - Erkki Huhtamo
3. Not Understanding Media: From Optical Toys to Artificial Intelligence - Tomáš Dvořák
4. From Eyes to Hands: Behind the Embrace of the "Screen-Free" Playscape - Meredith A. Bak
5. Wandering Eyes: A Meditation on Animated Deep Space Devices of Wonder - Colin Williamson
Part II: Mediation and its Avatars
6. Resurrections of the Dead. The Technological Uncanny of Ghost Production - Katharina Rein
7. Showing the Impossible: The Anatomy of a Cinematic Trick Image - Frank Kessler
8. The Flight of the Nightingale in the era of #BlackLivesMatter - Peter J. Bloom
9. No Strings Attached: Forms of Corruption - John Mowitt
10. Talking Furniture: Féeries for a Troubled Time in Proust, Ravel and Chomón - Dominique Jullien
Part III: Alternative Teleologies of Media
11. "Amid the moving pageant": Wordsworth's Photographic Encounters - Claire Grandy
12. Waves from An Old Film: The Aging of Cinema and the Uncanny Earth - Herschel Farbman