The Palgrave Handbook of Posthumanism in Film and Television

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
Posthumanism in Film and Television....Pages 1-7
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
From DelGuat to ScarJo....Pages 11-18
‘Self-Immolation by Technology’: Jean Baudrillard and the Posthuman in Film and Television....Pages 19-27
Derrida on Screen....Pages 28-36
Bruno Latour: From the Non-Modern to the Posthuman....Pages 37-44
Friedrich Nietzsche and the Posthuman/Transhuman in Film and Television....Pages 45-53
Front Matter....Pages 55-55
Terminated: The Life and Death of the Cyborg in Film and Television....Pages 57-65
Of Iron Men and Green Monsters: Superheroes and Posthumanism....Pages 66-76
Growing Your Own: Monsters from the Lab and Molecular Ethics in Posthumanist Film....Pages 77-87
Post-Singularity Entities in Film and TV....Pages 88-98
Chimeras and Hybrids: The Digital Swarms of the Posthuman Image....Pages 99-108
Front Matter....Pages 109-109
Androids and the Posthuman in Television and Film....Pages 111-119
‘Change for the Machines’? Posthumanism as Digital Sentience....Pages 120-129
Alive in the Net....Pages 130-140
Autonomous Fighting Machines: Narratives and Ethics....Pages 141-149
Front Matter....Pages 151-151
A Contest of Tropes: Screened Posthuman Subjectivities....Pages 153-162
Desire and Uncertainty: Representations of Cybersex in Film and Television....Pages 163-171
At Home In and Beyond Our Skin: Posthuman Embodiment in Film and Television....Pages 172-181
Constructed Worlds: Posthumanism in Film, Television and Other Cosmopoietic Media....Pages 182-191
Games, Gamers and Posthumanism....Pages 192-201
Front Matter....Pages 203-203
‘Life’s a bitch, and then you don’t die’: Postmortality in Film and Television....Pages 205-213
A New Lease on Life: A Lacanian Analysis of Cognitive Enhancement Cinema....Pages 214-224
Limitless? There’s a Pill for That: Filmic Representation as Equipment for Living....Pages 225-234
Posthumans and Democracy in Popular Culture....Pages 235-245
Negative Feelings as Emotional Enhancement in Cinema: The Case of Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise Trilogy....Pages 246-255
Front Matter....Pages 257-257
Biopleasures: Posthumanism and the Technological Imaginary in Utopian and Dystopian Film....Pages 259-268
Of Posthuman Born: Gender, Utopia and the Posthuman in Films and TV....Pages 269-278
Sharing Social Context: Is Community with the Posthuman Possible?....Pages 279-288
Our Posthuman Skin Condition....Pages 289-298
Muddy Worlds: Re-Viewing Environmental Narratives....Pages 299-308
Front Matter....Pages 309-309
Executing Species: Animal Attractions in Thomas Edison and Douglas Gordon....Pages 311-320
The Sun Never Set on the Human Empire: Haunts of Humanism in the Planet of the Apes Films....Pages 321-329
Uncanny Intimacies: Humans and Machines in Film....Pages 330-338
Posthumanous Subjects....Pages 339-348
Identity: Difficulties, Discontinuities and Pluralities of Personhood....Pages 349-358
Front Matter....Pages 359-359
The Final Frontier? Religion and Posthumanism in Film and Television....Pages 361-370
The Ghost in the Machine: Humanity and the Problem of Self-Aware Information....Pages 371-379
‘Trust a Few, Fear the Rest’: The Anxiety and Fantasy of Human Evolution....Pages 380-390
Onscreen Ontology: Stages in the Posthumanist Paradigm Shift....Pages 391-400
Object-Oriented Ontology....Pages 401-409
Back Matter....Pages 410-450