Screen Genealogies

Against the grain of the growing literature on screens, *Screen Genealogies* argues that the present excess of screens cannot be understood as an expansion and multiplication of the movie screen nor of the video display. Rather, screens continually exceed the optical histories in which they are most commonly inscribed. As contemporary screens become increasingly decomposed into...

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Against the grain of the growing literature on screens, *Screen Genealogies* argues that the present excess of screens cannot be understood as an expansion and multiplication of the movie screen nor of the video display. Rather, screens continually exceed the optical histories in which they are most commonly inscribed. As contemporary screens become increasingly decomposed into a distributed field of technologically interconnected surfaces and interfaces, we more readily recognize the deeper spatial and environmental interventions that have long been a property of screens. For most of its history, a screen was a filter, a divide, a shelter, or a camouflage. A genealogy stressing transformation and descent rather than origins and roots emphasizes a deeper set of intersecting and competing definitions of the screen, enabling new thinking about what the screen might yet become.

Introduction
Craig Buckley, Rüdiger Campe, and Francesco Casetti
Becoming Screen
1. Primal Screens / Francesco Casetti
2. ‘Schutz und Schirm’: Screening in German During Early
Modern Times / Rüdiger Campe
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Introduction
Craig Buckley, Rüdiger Campe, and Francesco Casetti
Becoming Screen
1. Primal Screens / Francesco Casetti
2. ‘Schutz und Schirm’: Screening in German During Early
Modern Times / Rüdiger Campe
Spaces
3. Face and Screen: Toward a Genealogy of the Media Façade / Craig Buckley
4. Sensing Screens: From Surface to Situation / Nanna Verhoeff
5. ‘Taking the Plunge’: The New Immersive Screens / Ariel Rogers
Atmospheres
6. The Atmospheric Screen: Turner, Hazlitt, Ruskin / Antonio Somaini
7. The Fog Medium: Visualizing and Engineering the Atmosphere / Yuriko Furuhata
8. The Charge of a Light Barricade: Optics and Ballistics in the Ambiguous Being of Screens / John Durham Peters
Formats
9. Flat Bayreuth: A Genealogy of Opera as Screened / Gundula Kreuzer
10. Imaginary Screens: The Hypnotic Gesture and Early Film / Ruggero Eugeni
11. Material. Human. Divine. Notes on the Vertical Screen / Noam M. Elcott
Acknowledgments
Index
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