| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 334 pages) : illustrations (black and white) |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Facing Forward, Facing Back -- Part I. The Sum of Its Parts: Features, Codes, Practices -- 1. The Generic Face: Galton, Muybridge and the Photographic Proof of Race -- 2. Mad Faces: Coding Features and Expressions of Female Madness in Physiognomy Texts, Asylum Photographs and Early Cinema -- 3. Elastics of the Film Mouth -- 4. The Problem of Recognition: Celebrity Faces, Photogénie and Facial Recognition Technologies -- 5. Emptied Faces: In Search of an Algorithmic Punctum -- Part II. Reframing the Close-up -- 6. 'A Landscape of Faces': The Farewell and Ecologies of the Face in Independent Asian-American Film -- 7. The New Transactional Face: Rethinking Post-cinematic Aesthetics through The Neon Demon -- 8. Black Faces Matter: Close-ups in Selma, Fruitvale Station and Moonlight -- 9. 'Sheer Epidermis': 'Face Politics' and the Films of Lynne Ramsay -- 10. Facing Life in the Open: The (Post)humanist Worldmaking of My Octopus Teacher -- 11. Bête Noir(e): Animality, Genre and the Face in Border -- 12. Hejab as Frame in Ten and Beyond -- Part III. Making Faces : Celebrity, Performance, Self -- 13. The Faces of Ginger: Beauty Makeup, Facial Acting and Hollywood Stardom -- 14. At Face Value: Consuming the Star Image -- 15. The Face Is the Lie that Tells the Truth: Renée Zellweger and the Mediated Politics of Age, Self and Celebrity -- 16. Mediating the Human in Facial Performance Capture -- 17. Becoming a Woman: The Many Faces of Candice Breitz -- 18. The Face as Technology -- 19. From Holy Grail to Deepfake: The Evolving Digital Face on Screen -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
Examines the face on screen from a variety of critical and historical perspectives |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Face in motion pictures.
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Face in mass media.
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Face on television
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PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Direction & Production
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Face in mass media
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Face in motion pictures
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Maurice, Alice, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781474493802 |
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1474493807 |
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9781474493819 |
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1474493815 |
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