TY - BOOK ID - 49153538 TI - Screen Genealogies : From Optical Device to Environmental Medium AU - Buckley, Craig AU - Casetti, Francesco AU - Campe, Rùˆdiger PY - 2019 SN - 9463729003 9048543959 PB - Amsterdam University Press DB - UniCat KW - Media studies KW - Digital lifestyle KW - Mass media. KW - Information technology KW - Social aspects. KW - Mass communication KW - Media, Mass KW - Media, The KW - Communication KW - Screens, Media Archeology, Environmental Media, Visual Studies,. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:49153538 AB - Against the grain of the growing literature on screens, "Screen Genealogies" argues that the present excess of screens cannot be understood as an expansion and multiplication of the movie screen nor of the video display. Rather, screens continually exceed the optical histories in which they are most commonly inscribed. As contemporary screens become increasingly decomposed into a distributed field of technologically interconnected surfaces and interfaces, we more readily recognize the deeper spatial and environmental interventions that have long been a property of screens. For most of its history, a screen was a filter, a divide, a shelter, or a camouflage. A genealogy stressing transformation and descent rather than origins and roots emphasizes a deeper set of intersecting and competing definitions of the screen, enabling new thinking about what the screen might yet become. ER -