This book deals with film enactments and representations of the belief that human beings are essentially their brains, a belief that embodies one of the most influential modern ways of understanding the human.
This book deals with film enactments and representations of the belief that human beings are essentially their brains, a belief that embodies one of the most influential modern ways of understanding the human.
Fernando Vidal is Research Professor of ICREA (Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies) at the Medical Anthropology Research Center, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain.
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Acknowledgments Note on References and Images 1. Brainhood and the Cinema The Deficit Model and the Agency of Film Bs to Zs Filmic Brains in the Neurobiological Age 2. Brains in the Pulps Resources Scientifiction Textual and Visual Advertisement and Prophetic Insight Before Gernsback Weird Tales Stories Astounding and Amazing 3. Naked Brains and Living Heads Brain Movies Body Parts The Donor Portion Apes Semigrafts Living Heads Some Filmic Allografts Paradox of the Naked Brain 4. Personal Survival Immortality and the Brain Adam and Tithonus Staying the Same Becoming Someone Else The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936) Change of Mind (1969) The Man With the Transplanted Brain (1971) 5. Frankenstein's Brains Shelley's Novel and Frankenstein Films The Final Touch: Frankenstein (1931) The Universal Series The Hammer Series Beyond Universal and Hammer 6. Memories Lost and Regained A Preference for Retrograde Amnesia Localizing Memory in the Filmic Brain Personal Identity and the Authenticity of Memory Erasing Memories Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) Dark City (1998) 7. Imagine They Are in the Human Mind Bibliography Films Index
Acknowledgments Note on References and Images 1. Brainhood and the Cinema The Deficit Model and the Agency of Film Bs to Zs Filmic Brains in the Neurobiological Age 2. Brains in the Pulps Resources Scientifiction Textual and Visual Advertisement and Prophetic Insight Before Gernsback Weird Tales Stories Astounding and Amazing 3. Naked Brains and Living Heads Brain Movies Body Parts The Donor Portion Apes Semigrafts Living Heads Some Filmic Allografts Paradox of the Naked Brain 4. Personal Survival Immortality and the Brain Adam and Tithonus Staying the Same Becoming Someone Else The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936) Change of Mind (1969) The Man With the Transplanted Brain (1971) 5. Frankenstein's Brains Shelley's Novel and Frankenstein Films The Final Touch: Frankenstein (1931) The Universal Series The Hammer Series Beyond Universal and Hammer 6. Memories Lost and Regained A Preference for Retrograde Amnesia Localizing Memory in the Filmic Brain Personal Identity and the Authenticity of Memory Erasing Memories Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) Dark City (1998) 7. Imagine They Are in the Human Mind Bibliography Films Index
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