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Book SynopsisFrom AI to climate change, recent technological, ecological, and cultural transformations have unsettled established assumptions about the relationship between the human and the more-than-human world. Screening the Posthuman addresses a heterogenous body of twenty-first century films that turn to the figure of the posthuman as a means of exploring this development. Through close analyses of films as diverse as Kûki ningyô [Air Doll] (dir. Hirokazu Koreeda 2009), Testrol és lélekrol [On Body and Soul] (dir. Ildiko Enyedi 2017) and Nomadland (dir. Chloé Zhao 2020), this wide-ranging volume shows that, while often identified as the remit of science fiction, the posthuman on screen crosses filmic genres, national contexts, and industrial settings. In the process, posthuman cinema emphasizes humanity''s entanglement in broader biological, technological, and social worlds and exposes new models of subjectivity, community, and desire. In advancing these arguments, Screening the Posthuman dr
Trade ReviewIn summary, Pansy Duncan, Claire Henry, and Missy Molloy have fashioned an impressive critical exercise on posthuman theory that will surely serve as a crucial text and foundational source of scholarship in the emerging, evolving discourse in our collective engagement with the posthuman, in an ever decentralized contemporary understanding of what it means to be human. * M. Sellers Johson, Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism *
Table of ContentsIntroduction Pansy Duncan, Claire Henry and Missy Molloy 1. Posthuman as Genre Pansy Duncan, Claire Henry and Missy Molloy 2. Envisioning Posthuman Apocalypse Missy Molloy 3. From Cyborg Theory to Posthuman Mothers Missy Molloy 4. Queer Posthumanism Claire Henry 5. The Cinematic Convergence of Posthuman and Crip Perspectives Pansy Duncan and Missy Molloy 6. Post-anthropocentrism: Rejecting Human Exceptionalism Claire Henry 7. The Eco-material Posthuman in the Age of the Anthropocene Pansy Duncan Conclusion Pansy Duncan, Claire Henry and Missy Molloy Bibliography Index
