Faces on screen : new approaches /
Examines the face on screen from a variety of critical and historical perspectives.
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| Ngôn ngữ: | Tiếng Anh |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2022]
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Mục lục:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Facing Forward, Facing Back
- Part I. The Sum of Its Parts: Features, Codes, Practices
- 1. The Generic Face: Galton, Muybridge and the Photographic Proof of Race
- 2. Mad Faces: Coding Features and Expressions of Female Madness in Physiognomy Texts, Asylum Photographs and Early Cinema
- 3. Elastics of the Film Mouth
- 4. The Problem of Recognition: Celebrity Faces, Photogénie and Facial Recognition Technologies
- 5. Emptied Faces: In Search of an Algorithmic Punctum
- Part II. Reframing the Close-up
- 6. 'A Landscape of Faces': The Farewell and Ecologies of the Face in Independent Asian-American Film
- 7. The New Transactional Face: Rethinking Post-cinematic Aesthetics through The Neon Demon
- 8. Black Faces Matter: Close-ups in Selma, Fruitvale Station and Moonlight
- 9. 'Sheer Epidermis': 'Face Politics' and the Films of Lynne Ramsay
- 10. Facing Life in the Open: The (Post)humanist Worldmaking of My Octopus Teacher
- 11. Bête Noir(e): Animality, Genre and the Face in Border
- 12. Hejab as Frame in Ten and Beyond
- Part III. Making Faces : Celebrity, Performance, Self
- 13. The Faces of Ginger: Beauty Makeup, Facial Acting and Hollywood Stardom
- 14. At Face Value: Consuming the Star Image
- 15. The Face Is the Lie that Tells the Truth: Renée Zellweger and the Mediated Politics of Age, Self and Celebrity
- 16. Mediating the Human in Facial Performance Capture
- 17. Becoming a Woman: The Many Faces of Candice Breitz
- 18. The Face as Technology
- 19. From Holy Grail to Deepfake: The Evolving Digital Face on Screen
- References
- Index