Squid Cinema From Hell

Kinoteuthis Infernalis and the Emergence of Chthulumedia

AvWilliam Brown,David H. Fleming

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Here be Kraken! The Squid Cinema From Hell draws upon writers like Vilém 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 Céline 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-06-23
Mått:156 x 234 x 24 mm
Vikt:510 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:328
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474463737

Utforska kategorier

Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion
Film inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

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. He is the author of Unbecoming Cinema (2017) and co-author of Squid Cinema from Hell (2020, EUP) and Chinese Urban Shi-nema (2020). He is also co-editor of Cinema, Identities and Beyond (2009).

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An excellent framework for how to look at cinema through a cephalopodic lens without giving in to the fetishizing impulse that the authors see as endemic to many fields dealing in the hybridization of human/object/ animal theories […] this text is especially useful in establishing an imaginative map of how to approach or engage with media in the winter of 2022, as the globe is deluged, over and over, with world-historic events that destabilize reality. Put differently, this is perhaps the best time for a text that destabilizes how we think of squid, cinema, time, being, and erotics to help imagine futures in an increasingly unstable world.

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgmentsBeaky prepostface1. Introducing the End2. Pulp Fiction and the Media Archaeology of Space3. Encounters with a 4DX Kino-Kraken4. Actorly Squid/Sets and Cephalopod Realism5. The Erotic Ecstasy of Cthulhu6. Cosmic Light, Cosmic Darkness7. The Backwash of Becoming Cthulhu, Or, L∞py, Tentacular Time8. From the Modern Prometheus to the Modern Medusa