The Squid Cinema from Hell: Kinoteuthis Infernalis and the Emergence of Chthulumedia - Couverture souple

Brown, William; Fleming, David H.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1474463738 ISBN 13 : 9781474463737

Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2020

Synopsis

A philosophical study of cephalopods in cinema and contemporary media Offers up a 'posthuman' understanding of film and media, charting the historical relationships between cephalopods and cinema, especially in the digital age Draws on work by authors such as Vilem Flusser, Donna J. Haraway, Graham Harman and Eugene Thacker Engages with contemporary discourses of speculative realism, object-oriented ontology, animal studies and the weird in order to chart the relationship between cinema and cephalopods Takes in examples from Europe, North America, South America and Asia, across a range of media, including cinema, literature, music videos, 4DX, advertising, websites, YouTube videos, artificial intelligence, VR and more Here be Kraken! The Squid Cinema From Hell draws upon writers like Vilem Flusser, Donna J. Haraway, Graham Harman and Eugene Thacker to offer up a critical analysis of cephalopods and other tentacular creatures in contemporary media, while also speculating that digital media might themselves constitute a weird, intelligent alien. If this were not enough to shiver ye timbers, the book engages with contemporary discourses of posthumanism, speculative realism, object-oriented ontology and animal studies to suggest that humans are the products of media rather than media being the products of humans. Including case studies of films by Denis Villeneuve, Park Chan-wook and Celine Sciamma, The Squid Cinema From Hell also provides a daring engagement with various media beyond cinema, including literature, music videos, 4DX, advertising, websites, YouTube, Artificial Intelligence and more. Zounds! This unique and Lovecraftian book will change the way you think about, and with, our contemporary, media-saturated world. For as we contemplate the abyss, the abyss looks back at us - and chthulumedia, or media at the end of human times, begin to emerge.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

William Brown is a Senior Lecturer in Film at the University of Roehampton, London. He is the author of various books, including Non-Cinema: Global Digital Filmmaking and the Multitude (Bloomsbury, 2018) and Supercinema: Film-Philosophy for the Digital Age (Berghahn, 2013). He is also a maker of micro-budget films, including En Attendant Godard (2009), Selfie (2014) and This is Cinema (2019). David H. Fleming is a Senior lecturer in the Communications, Media and Culture Division at the University of Stirling, Scotland. His research interests surround the intersectionalities of cinema, philosophy and technology and publishes widely in interdisciplinary journals including SubStance, Film-Philosophy, Deleuze Studies, Journal of Chinese Cinemas, Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, Social Semiotics and edited collections such as Posthumanisms Through Deleuze (Indiana University Press, forthcoming) and Deleuze and Film (Edinburgh University Press, 2012).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edinburgh University Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1474463738
• ISBN 13: 9781474463737
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 328
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible