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Body Images In The Post-Cinematic Scenario

The Digitization Of Bodies
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What is the current status of the human body in the digital era? Taking this question as a starting point, the book explores how our perception of the body has been modified by the advent of new media (videogames, transmedia platforms, ARGs), by the rise of recent devices such as wearable technologies,Virtual Reality, cosmetic surgery and by the creation of different narratives such as science-fictions, and TV series. Which kind of identities emerge within this context? How is our body image disseminated? In the ‘Post-Cinematic’ or ‘Post-Media’ condition, the body becomes a changeable, flexible, ‘unstable object’. The first part of this volume analyses the presence of body in the field of television/film and in social media (changes, aesthetics, new spaces); the second part focuses on the relationship between the digital media and the viewer/user, showing how the spectator’s body is subject to a constant shape modification.

Author Biography:

Alberto Brodesco is Research Assistant at the Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento. He has published extensively about the limits of representation (violence, death, pornography, freaks) and the technoscientific imagery on audiovisual media (cinema, television, YouTube). Federico Giordano is Researcher at the Università Telematica San Raffaele (Rome) and Visiting Professor at the University for Foreigners (Perugia). His main research interests include Italian contemporary cinema, landscape in the media and game studies. Among his latest publications: "The Archives. Post-Cinema and Video Games Between Memory and the Image of the Present", ed. with B. Perron (2014).
Release date NZ
February 11th, 2018
Series
Contributors
  • Edited by Alberto Brodesco
  • Edited by Federico Giordano
Pages
198
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
ISBN-13
9788869771095
Product ID
26884646

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