The Anthem Handbook of Screen Theory

'The Anthem Handbook of Screen Theory' offers readers a unique survey of the new horizons of film and media theory, focusing on the applicability of screen theories and updating the field for new social, cultural and geopolitical contexts.

Cover -- Front Matter -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter Int-18 -- Introduction: Post- , Grand, Classical or "So-Called"... -- Notes -- References -- Part I What we are -- Chapter One The Brain's Labor: on Marxism and The Movies -- Capitalism's Phantasmagoria -- The Couch and the Screen -- To Look Is to Labor -- "Vacation from the Self" -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter Two Racial Being, Affect and Media Cultures -- Spectatorship and Race -- Getting In to Get Out -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter Three Thinking Sex, Doing Gender, Watching film -- Coda -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter Four "Complicated Negotiations": Reception and Audience Studies into the Digital age -- Introduction -- Spectatorship Approaches -- Spectatorship and Identity -- Cognitive Approaches -- The Empirical Moviegoer: The Spectator as Ticket Buyer -- Audience Studies -- Toward a Synthesis: Reception Studies -- Reception Studies into the Digital Age -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter Five World Cinema and its worlds -- Always Global -- Always Local -- Global Gomorrah -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter Six Screen Theory Beyond the Human: Toward an Ecomaterialism of the Moving image -- Case Study 1: Baraka (1992) -- Case Study 2: Titanic (1997) -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter Seven "We will Exchange your Likeness and Recreate you in What you will not... -- Cinema Studies and Process Philosophy -- A Note on "Western" and "Non-Western," Philosophy and Theory -- Arthur Jafa's Process-Relational Cinema -- Subjects? Objects? in a Relational Field -- Saccadic Flows -- Whitehead's Process Universe: Intensifying Atomistic Becomings -- Sadrā's Universe: Individuation in an Intensifying Flow -- Glissant's Relational Synthesis -- Individuation and Milieu.