Faces on Screen : : New Approaches /

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

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 th...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.) :; 51 B/W illustrations
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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

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