Title Medial bodies between fiction and faction : reinventing corporeality / Denisa Butnaru (ed.)

Published Bielefeld : Transcipt Verlag, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (266 pages) Series Body cultures Body cultures. Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Gazing Upon the Cyborg as An Unreliable Cartoon: On Some Issues from Superior Iron Man (2014-2015) -- Robots which draw. How BioArt rethinks Body and Hybridity -- Artificial human beings and the power of literature: Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Holmberg, and Piglia -- The Aesthetics of Bodies in Translation: From The Water-Babies to Real Humans -- From Disability to Enhancement: Paradoxical Representations of Prosthetic Bodies in the Media Discourse -- Disability as Malleability: The Prosthetic Metaphor, Merleau-Ponty and the Case of Aimee Mullins -- The Protean Self -- Detecting Bodies: The Dystopian Detective Film and Narratives of Reproduction -- The Cinematic Body -- Embodying the Reader: Perspectives on Fiction, Cognition, and the Body -- Medial Bodies: Forays into Artistic and Philosophical- Anthropological Research -- The Aberrant Medial Body -- List of Authors Summary In the past decades, developments in the fields of medicine, new media, and biotechnologies challenged many representations and practices, questioning the understanding of our corporeal limits. Using concrete examples from literary fiction, media studies, philosophy, performance arts, and social sciences, this collection underlines how bodily models and transformations thought until recently to be only fictional products have become a part of our reality. The essays provide a spectrum of perspectives on how the body emerges as a transitional environment between fictional and factual elements, a process understood as faction Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 25, 2020) Subject Human body in mass media. Human body in literature. Human body in motion pictures. Human figure in art. Human body (Philosophy) Human body -- Social aspects. Human beings in art. Electronic books. e-books. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies Human body in literature Human body in mass media Human body in motion pictures Human body (Philosophy) Human body -- Social aspects Human figure in art Form Electronic book Author Butnaru, Denisa, editor ISBN 9783839447291 3839447291 9783837647297 3837647293

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