The Palgrave handbook of posthumanism in film and television / [edited by] Michael Hauskeller, University of Exeter, UK ; Thomas D. Philbeck, World Economic Forum, Switzerland ; Curtis D. Carbonell, Khalifa University of Science, Technology & Research, UAE.

Other author Hauskeller, Michael, editor.
Other author Philbeck, Thomas Drew, 1976- editor.
Other author Carbonell, Curtis D., editor.
Format Electronic
PublicationHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Description1 online resource (xxiii, 450 pages).
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Portion of title Handbook of posthumanism in film and television
SeriesPalgrave handbooks
Contents 1 Posthumanism in Film and Television -- Part I: Paving the Way to Posthumanism: The Precursors -- 2 From DelGuat to ScarJo -- 3 'Self-Immolation by Technology': Jean Baudrillard and the Posthuman in Film and Television -- 4 Derrida on Screen -- 5 Bruno Latour: From the Non-Modern to the Posthuman -- 6 Friedrich Nietzsche and the Posthuman/Transhuman in Film and Television -- Part II: Varieties of People-to-Come: Posthuman Becomings. 7 Terminated: The Life and Death of the Cyborg in Film and Television -- 8 Of Iron Men and Green Monsters: Superheroes and Posthumanism -- 9 Growing Your Own: Monsters from the Lab and Molecular Ethics in Posthumanist Film -- 10 Post-Singularity Entities in Film and TV -- 11 Chimeras and Hybrids: The Digital Swarms of the Posthuman Image -- Part III: Rise of the Machines: Posthuman Intellects. 12 Androids and the Posthuman in Television and Film -- 13 'Change for the Machines' Posthumanism as Digital Sentience -- 14 Alive in the Net -- 15 Autonomous Fighting Machines: Narratives and Ethics -- Part IV: Body and Soul: Posthuman Subjectivities. 16 A Contest of Tropes: Screened Posthuman Subjectivities -- 17 Desire and Uncertainty: Representations of Cybersex in Film and Television -- 18 At Home In and Beyond Our Skin: Posthuman Embodiment in Film and Television -- 19 Constructed Worlds: Posthumanism in Film, Television and Other Cosmopoietic Media -- 20 Games, Gamers and Posthumanism -- Part V: Better Humans: Posthuman Capacities. 21 'Life's a bitch, and then you don't die': Postmortality in Film and Television -- 22 A New Lease on Life: A Lacanian Analysis of Cognitive Enhancement Cinema -- 23 Limitless? There?s a Pill for That: Filmic Representation as Equipment for Living -- 24 Posthumans and Democracy in Popular Culture -- 25 Negative Feelings as Emotional Enhancement in Cinema: The Case of Ulrich Seidl's Paradise Trilogy -- Part VI: Creating Difference and Identity: Posthuman Communities. 26 Biopleasures: Posthumanism and the Technological Imaginary in Utopian and Dystopian Film -- 27 Of Posthuman Born: Gender, Utopia and the Posthuman in Films and TV -- 28 Sharing Social Context: Is Community with the Posthuman Possible? -- 29 Our Posthuman Skin Condition -- 30 Muddy Worlds: Re-Viewing Environmental Narratives -- Part VII: Us and Them: Posthuman Relationships. 31 Executing Species: Animal Attractions in Thomas Edison and Douglas Gordon -- 32 The Sun Never Set on the Human Empire: Haunts of Humanism in the Planet of the Apes Films -- 33 Uncanny Intimacies: Humans and Machines in Film -- 34 Posthumanous Subjects -- 35 Identity: Difficulties, Discontinuities and Pluralities of Personhood -- Part VIII: More Human than Human: Posthuman Ontologies. 36 The Final Frontier? Religion and Posthumanism in Film and Television -- 37 The Ghost in the Machine: Humanity and the Problem of Self-Aware Information -- 38 'Trust a Few, Fear the Rest': The Anxiety and Fantasy of Human Evolution -- 39 Onscreen Ontology: Stages in the Posthumanism Paradigm Shift -- 40 Object Oriented Ontology.
Abstract What does popular culture's relationship with cyborgs, robots, vampires and zombies tell us about being human? Insightful scholarly perspectives shine a light on how film and television evince and portray the philosophical roots, the social ramifications and the future visions of a posthumanist world.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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