Faces on Screen : : New Approaches / / ed. by Alice Maurice.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2022
• MitwirkendeR: Allison, Tanine,; Banerjee, Koel,; Bode, Lisa,; Cortez, Iggy,; Dinnen, Zara,; Fenner, Angelica,; Gunn, Jenny,; Gyenge, Andrea,; Hristova, Stefka,; Konzett, Delia Malia,; Maurice, Alice,; McBean, Sam,; McLean, Adrienne L.,; Parlett, Hannah,; Quigley, Paula,; Saljoughi, Sara,; Singer, Elyse,; Tucker, Aaron,; Weber, Brenda R.,; Yue, Genevieve,
• HerausgeberIn: Maurice, Alice,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 51 B/W illustrations

Examines the face on screen from a variety of critical and historical perspectivesRe-thinks the face on screen by highlighting new work that forges connections between early, classic, and contemporary face issuesAddresses topical and contemporary issues while also offering an historicised look at the roots of our current, ever-multiplying entanglements with the face on screenIncludes work on mainstream cinema as well as on documentary, avant-garde cinema, video art, gaming, software, photography, and other visual technologiesBrings together authors working across genres and traditions, joining scholars and topics that do not normally appear in the same venuesUses case studies including The Big Swallow, Minamata: The Victims and Their World, The Neon Demon, Fruitvale Station and AvatarWhether we consider the digitally created and manipulated faces of Hollywood cinema or the social media filters, face apps, and surveillance software of everyday life, reading face language has become the seemingly endless task of humans and machines alike. Recent facial controversies – from politicians in blackface to deep fakes," casting debates, and facial data collection-- have made clear the need for a broader understanding of the face on screen and its varied techniques and effects. This book will consider the screen face from a variety of perspectives, across time periods and media, bringing together essays on topics ranging from early cinema to contemporary digital media – from photogénie to facial recognition, celebrity culture to digital creatures. It explores how screen culture builds on and complicates our urge to search the face for answers to our most intractable questions."

Table of Contents

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