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Book Title
Screening Fears : on Protective Media
Publication Name
Screening Fears – On Protective Media
Title
Screening Fears – On Protective Media
Author
Francesco Casetti
Format
Hardcover
ISBN-10
1942130872
EAN
9781942130871
ISBN
9781942130871
Publisher
Zone Books
Genre
Art, Social Science
Release Date
15/08/2023
Release Year
2023
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
1in
Item Length
9.4in
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
20.4 Oz
Publication Year
2023
Topic
Media Studies, General
Number of Pages
272 Pages

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A historical and theoretical investigation of the unexpected ways screen-based media protect and excite viewers' fears and anxieties of the world. In this brilliant contribution to contemporary media studies, acclaimed theorist Francesco Casetti advances a provocative hypothesis: instead of being prostheses that expand or extend our perceptions, modern screen-based media are in fact apparatuses that shelter and protect us from exposure to the world. Rather than bringing us closer to external reality, dominant forms of visual media function as barriers or enclosures that defend against the apparent threats and dangers that seem increasingly to surround us. Working with an original historical overview that begins with the Phantasmagoria of the late eighteenth century, then the shared interior spaces of the movie theatre in the early to mid-twentieth century, and finally the solitary digital milieus of the present, Casetti traces the outlines of the protective 'bubbles' that disconnect us from our immediate surroundings. To be provided with a shield of immunity to the hazards and uncertainties of the world while experiencing them at a safe remove might seem a positive development. But, he asks, what if these media, instead of providing invulnerability, ensnare individuals in a suffocating enclosure? What if, in their effort to keep reality under control, they exercise a violence equal to that of the dangers they resist? In a dialectical exercise, and through a vivid range of cultural artefacts, Screening Fears traces the emergence of modern protective media and the way they changed our forms of mediation with the world in which we live.

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Publisher
Zone Books
ISBN-10
1942130872
ISBN-13
9781942130871
eBay Product ID (ePID)
28057288080

Product Key Features

Book Title
Screening Fears : on Protective Media
Author
Francesco Casetti
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Media Studies, General
Publication Year
2023
Genre
Art, Social Science
Number of Pages
272 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.4in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
20.4 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
B54.C37 2023
Lccn
2022-049958
Dewey Decimal
302.2301
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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