Overview

Whether we consider the digitally created and manipulated faces of Hollywood cinema or the social media filters, face apps, and surveillance software of everyday life, reading face language has become the seemingly endless task of humans and machines alike. Recent facial controversies from politicians in blackface to ""deep fakes,"" casting debates, and facial data collection-- have made clear the need for a broader understanding of the face on screen and its varied techniques and effects. This book will consider the screen face from a variety of perspectives, across time periods and media, bringing together essays on topics ranging from early cinema to contemporary digital media from photogenie to facial recognition, celebrity culture to digital creatures. It explores how screen culture builds on and complicates our urge to search the face for answers to our most intractable questions.

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Author:   Alice Maurice (Associate Professor of English and Cinema Studies, University of Toronto)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.494kg
ISBN:  

9781474493796

ISBN 10:   1474493793
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   12 February 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Facing Forward, Facing Back - Alice Maurice Part I. The Sum of Its Parts: Features, Codes, Practices 1. The Generic Face: Galton, Muybridge, and the Photographic Proof of Race - Genevieve Yue 2. Mad Faces: Coding Features and Expressions of Female Madness in Physiognomy Texts, Asylum Photographs, and Early Cinema - Elyse Singer 3. Elastics of the Film Mouth - Andrea Gyenge 4. The Problem of Recognition: Celebrity Faces, Photogénie, and Facial Recognition Technologies - Aaron Tucker 5. Emptied Faces: In Search of an Algorithmic Punctum - Stefka Hristova Part II. Reframing the Close-up 6. ‘A Landscape of Faces’: The Farewell and Ecologies of the Face in Independent Asian-American Film - Iggy Cortez 7. The New Transactional Face: Rethinking Post-Cinematic Aesthetics through The Neon Demon - Jenny Gunn 8. Black Faces Matter: Close-Ups in Selma, Fruitvale Station, and Moonlight - Delia Malia Konzett 9. ‘Sheer Epidermis’: ‘Face Politics’ and the Films of Lynne Ramsay - Paula Quigley 10. Facing Life in the Open: The (Post)humanist Worldmaking of My Octopus Teacher - Angelica Fenner 11. Bête Noir(e): Animality, Genre, and the Face in Border - Alice Maurice 12. Hejab as Frame in Ten and Beyond - Sara Saljoughi Part III. Making Faces: Celebrity, Performance, Self 13. The Faces of Ginger: Beauty Makeup, Facial Acting, and Hollywood Stardom - Adrienne L. McLean 14. At Face Value: Consuming the Star Image - Koel Banerjee 15. The Face is the Lie That Tells the Truth: Renée Zellweger and the Mediated Politics of Age, Self, and Celebrity - Brenda Weber 16. Mediating the Human in Facial Performance Capture - Tanine Allison 17. Becoming a Woman: The Many Faces of Candice Breitz - Hannah Parlett 18. The Face as Technology - Zara Dinnen and Sam McBean 19. From Holy Grail to Deepfake: The Evolving Digital Face on Screen - Lisa Bode

Reviews

This exciting new volume unravels the material and technological, social and psychic forces informing the face on screen, delineating possible histories, and interrogating the face’s political stakes in our shifting cultural moment. The original essays span wide and dig deep into a wealth of films, media practices, and persisting theoretical questions of the facial image. -- Noa Steimatsky, author of The Face on Film (2017)

This exciting new volume unravels the material and technological, social and psychic forces informing the face on screen, delineating possible histories, and interrogating the face's political stakes in our shifting cultural moment. The original essays span wide and dig deep into a wealth of films, media practices, and persisting theoretical questions of the facial image. --Noa Steimatsky, author of The Face on Film (2017)

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Dr Alice Maurice is an Associate Professor of English and Cinema Studies at University of Toronto.

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