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Publication details

Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 2015

ISBN (Hardback): 9781349577019

Full citation:

Michael Hauskeller, Thomas D. Philbeck, Curtis D. Carbonell (eds), The Palgrave handbook of posthumanism in film and television, Berlin, Springer, 2015

The Palgrave handbook of posthumanism in film and television

Contents

"Self-immolation by technology"

Jean Baudrillard and the posthuman in film and television

Jon Baldwin

19-27

Bruno Latour

from the non-modern to the posthuman

37-44

Terminated

the life and death of the cyborg in film and television

57-65

Of iron men and green monsters

superheroes and posthumanism

Dan Hassler-Forest

66-76

Growing your own

monsters from the lab and molecular ethics in posthumanist film

Anna Powell

77-87

Chimeras and hybrids

the digital swarms of the posthuman image

Drew Ayers

99-108

"Change for the machines"?

posthumanism as digital sentience

Sherryl Vint

120-129

A contest of tropes

screened posthuman subjectivities

Curtis D. Carbonell

153-162

Desire and uncertainty

representations of cybersex in film and television

Hilary Wheaton

163-171

At home in and beyond our skin

posthuman embodiment in film and television

Joel Krueger

172-181

Constructed worlds

posthumanism in film, television and other cosmopoietic media

Ivan Callus

182-191

A new lease on life

a Lacanian analysis of cognitive enhancement cinema

Hub Zwart

214-224

Limitless? there's a pill for that

filmic representation as equipment for living

Kyle McNease

225-234

Negative feelings as emotional enhancement in cinema

the case of Ulrich Seidl's Paradise trilogy

Tarja Laine

246-255

Biopleasures

posthumanism and the technological imaginary in utopian and dystopian film

Ralph Pordzik

259-268

Of posthuman born

gender, utopia and the posthuman in films and tv

Francesca Ferrando

269-278

Sharing social context

is community with the posthuman possible?

David Meeler, Eric Hill

279-288

Muddy worlds

re-viewing environmental narratives

John Bruni

299-308

Executing species

animal attractions in Thomas Edison and Douglas Gordon

Anat Pick

311-320

The sun never set on the human empire

haunts of humanism in the planet of the apes films

Phil Henderson

321-329

Uncanny intimacies

humans and machines in film

330-338

Identity

difficulties, discontinuities and pluralities of personhood

James DiGiovanna

349-358

The final frontier?

religion and posthumanism in film and television

Elaine Graham

361-370

The ghost in the machine

humanity and the problem of self-aware information

Brett Lunceford

371-379

"Trust a few, fear the rest"

the anxiety and fantasy of human evolution

Nayar

380-390

Onscreen ontology

stages in the posthumanist paradigm shift

Thomas D. Philbeck

391-400