Dear All,
On behalf of Hunter Vaughan and Tom Conley, the book's editors, together with fellow contributors (many familiar to the Film-Philosophy community), I'd like
to make you aware of the publication of The Anthem Handbook of Screen Theory
http://www.anthempress.com/the-anthem-handbook-of-screen-theory
Please see the link above, and the press flyer below, for a description of the book and all of the publication details. As it's not included, here is a complete list of the book's contents:
Introduction: Post-, Grand, Classical or “So- Called”: What Is, and Was, Film Theory? Francesco Casetti; The Brain’s Labor: On Marxism and the Movies, Pasi Väliaho; Racial Being, Affect and Media Cultures, Camilla Fojas; Thinking Sex, Doing Gender, Watching Film, Theresa L. Geller; “Complicated Negotiations”: Reception and Audience Studies into the Digital Age, Brendan Kredell; World Cinema and Its Worlds, James Tweedie; Screen Theory Beyond the Human: Toward an Ecomaterialism of the Moving Image, Hunter Vaughan; “We Will Exchange Your Likeness and Recreate You in What You Will Not Know”: Transcultural Process Philosophy and the Moving Image, Laura U. Marks; Apparatus Theory, Plain and Simple, Tom Conley; Properties of Film Authorship, Codruţa Morari; “Deepest Ecstasy” Meets Cinema’s Social Subjects: Theorizing the Screen Star, Mary R. Desjardins; Rethinking Genre Memory: Hitchcock’s Vertigo and Its Revision, Elisabeth Bronfen; Digital Technologies and the End(s) of Film Theory, Trond Lundemo; How John the Baptist Kept His Head: My Life in Film Philosophy, William Rothman; The Expressive Sign: Cinesemiotics, Enunciation and Screen Art, Daniel Yacavone; Narratology in Motion: Causality, Puzzles and Narrative Twists, Warren Buckland; He(u)retical Film Theory: When Cognitivism Meets Theory, William Brown; Philosophy Encounters the Moving Image: From Film Philosophy to Cinematic Thinking, Robert Sinnerbrink; Screen Perception and Event: Beyond the Formalist/ Realist Divide, Nadine Boljkovac; Postface: Tom Conley
ANTHEM PRESS
The Anthem Handbook of Screen Theory
Edited by Hunter Vaughan and Tom Conley
INFORMATION SHEET
Pub Date: 30 July 2018 Binding: Hardback Price: £120.00 / $195.00 ISBN: 9781783088232 Extent: 372 pages
Size: 153 x 229 mm / 6 x 9 inches
BISAC CATEGORY: ART / Film & Video ART / Criticism & Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory BISAC
CODE: ART057000
BIC CODE: APFA
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A unique survey of the new horizons of film and media theory.
“In the wake of the post-theory wars, this collection stakes a bold claim for the relevance, importance and centrality of theory for film and screen studies. [...] This book represents not
merely a survey of the field, but a rich and open foray into current and future debates, often raising points that are challenging and controversial.”
—Richard Rushton, Senior Lecturer, Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts, Lancaster University, UK
“Whoever claimed that film theory is dead should read The Anthem Handbook of Screen Theory. This excellent collection of essays forcefully demonstrates that film theory is well equipped to
face the challenges of the digital age of moving images.”
—Sulgi Lie, Visiting Professor of Media Aesthetics, University of Basel, Switzerland
The Anthem Handbook of Screen Theory offers a unique and progressive survey of screen theory and how it can be applied to a range of moving-image texts and sociocultural contexts. Focusing on the “handbook” angle, the book includes only original essays from established authors in the field and new scholars on the cutting edge of helping screen theory evolve for the twenty-first-century vistas of new media, social shifts and geopolitical change. This method guarantees a strong foundation and clarity for the canon of film theory, while also situating it as part of a larger genealogy of art theories and critical thought, and reveals the relevance and utility of film theories and concepts to a wide array of expressive practices and specified arguments. The Anthem Handbook of Screen Theory is at once inclusive, applicable and a chance for writers to innovate and really play with where they think the field is, can and should be heading.
About the Author(s) / Editor(s)
Hunter Vaughan is associate professor of cinema studies at Oakland University, USA. His work focuses on environmental media, screen theory and philosophy, and issues of identity and ethics in visual culture. He is the author of Where Film Meets Philosophy (2013), Screen Life and Identity: A Guide to Film and Media Studies (with Meryl Shriver-Rice, 2017) and Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret (forthcoming).
Tom Conley is the Lowell Professor in Visual and Environmental Studies and Romance Languages at Harvard University, USA. He is the author of Film Hieroglyphs (1991/2006) and Cartographic Cinema (2007), and co-editor of the Wylie-Blackwell Companion to Godard (2014).
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