Screening the Posthuman

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Missy Molloy (Senior Lecturer in Film, Senior Lecturer in Film, Victoria University of Wellington) Pansy Duncan (Senior Lecturer in Media Studies, Senior Lecturer in Media Studies, Massey University)

Screening the Posthuman

Missy Molloy (Senior Lecturer in Film, Senior Lecturer in Film, Victoria University of Wellington), Pansy Duncan (Senior Lecturer in Media Studies, Senior Lecturer in Media Studies, Massey University), Claire Henry (Lecturer, Lecturer, Flinders University)

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Oxford University Press Inc
29 June 2023

Film, TV & Radio; Film theory & criticism; Television; Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge

"From AI to climate change, recent technological, ecological, and cultural transformations have unsettled established assumptions about the relationship between the human and the more-than-human world. Screening the Posthuman addresses a heterogenous body of twenty-first century films that turn to the figure of the ""posthuman"" as a means of exploring this development. Through close analyses of films as diverse as Kûki ningyô [Air Doll] (dir. Hirokazu Koreeda 2009), Testrol és lélekrol [On Body and Soul] (dir. Ildiko Enyedi 2017) and Nomadland (dir. Chloé Zhao 2020), this wide-ranging volume shows that, while often identified as the remit of science fiction, the posthuman on screen crosses filmic genres, national contexts, and industrial settings. In the process, posthuman cinema emphasizes humanity's entanglement in broader biological, technological, and social worlds and exposes new models of subjectivity, community, and desire. In advancing these arguments, Screening the Posthuman draws on scholarship associated with critical posthumanist theoryDLan ongoing project unified by a decentering of the ""human"". As the first systematic, full-length application of this body of scholarship to cinema, Screening the Posthuman advocates for a rigorous posthumanist critique that avoids both humanist nostalgia and transhumanist fantasy in its attention to the excitements and anxieties of posthuman experience."

By: Missy Molloy (Senior Lecturer in Film Senior Lecturer in Film Victoria University of Wellington), Pansy Duncan (Senior Lecturer in Media Studies, Senior Lecturer in Media Studies, Massey University), Claire Henry (Lecturer, Lecturer, Flinders University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 156mm, Width: 237mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 464g
ISBN: 9780197538579
ISBN 10: 0197538576
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 29 June 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction Pansy Duncan, Claire Henry and Missy Molloy 1. Posthuman as Genre Pansy Duncan, Claire Henry and Missy Molloy 2. Envisioning Posthuman Apocalypse Missy Molloy 3. From Cyborg Theory to Posthuman Mothers Missy Molloy 4. Queer Posthumanism Claire Henry 5. The Cinematic Convergence of Posthuman and Crip Perspectives Pansy Duncan and Missy Molloy 6. Post-anthropocentrism: Rejecting Human Exceptionalism Claire Henry 7. The Eco-material Posthuman in the Age of the Anthropocene Pansy Duncan Conclusion Pansy Duncan, Claire Henry and Missy Molloy Bibliography Index

Missy Molloy is Senior Lecturer in Film at Victoria University of Wellington in Aotearoa New Zealand. Pansy Duncan is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Massey University in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. Claire Henry is Lecturer in Screen at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia.

Reviews for Screening the Posthuman

In summary, Pansy Duncan, Claire Henry, and Missy Molloy have fashioned an impressive critical exercise on posthuman theory that will surely serve as a crucial text and foundational source of scholarship in the emerging, evolving discourse in our collective engagement with the posthuman, in an ever decentralized contemporary understanding of what it means to be human. * M. Sellers Johson, Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism *