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Performing Brains on Screen /
Performing Brains on Screen' deals with film enactments and representations of the belief that human beings are essentially their brains, a belief that embodies one of the most influential modern ways of understanding the human. Films have performed brains in two chief ways: by turning physical...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2022]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on References and Images
- 1. Brainhood and the Cinema
- Introduction
- The "Deficit Model" and the Agency of Film
- Bs to Zs
- Filmic Brains in the Neurobiological Age
- 2. Brains in the Pulps
- Introduction
- Resources
- Scientifiction, Textual and Visual
- Advertisement and "Prophetic Insight"
- Before Gernsback
- Weird Tales
- Stories Astounding and Amazing
- 3. Naked Brains and Living Heads
- Introduction
- Brain Movies
- Body Parts
- The Donor Portion
- Living Heads
- Some Filmic Allografts
- Paradox of the Naked Brain
- 4. Personal Survival
- Introduction
- Immortality and the Brain
- Adam and Tithonus
- Staying the Same, Becoming Someone Else
- 5. Frankenstein's Brains
- Introduction
- Shelley's Novel and Frankenstein Films
- The Final Touch: Frankenstein (1931)
- The Universal Series
- The Hammer Series
- Beyond Universal and Hammer
- 6. Memories, Lost and Regained
- Introduction
- A Preference for Retrograde Amnesia
- Localizing Memory in the Filmic Brain
- Personal Identity and the Authenticity of Memory
- Erasing Memories
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
- Dark City (1998)
- 7. "Imagine, They Are in the Human Mind"
- Bibliography
- Films
- Index