Fernando Vidal

Performing Brains on Screen (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Performing Brains on Screen 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. Films have performed brains in two chief ways: by turning physical brains into protagonists, as in the brain movies of the 1950s, which show terrestrial or extra-terrestrial disembodied brains carrying out their evil intentions; or by giving brains that remain unseen inside someone's head an explicitly major role, as in brain transplantation films or their successors since the 1980s, in which brain contents are transferred and manipulated by means of information technology. Through an analysis of filmic genres and particular movies, Performing Brains on Screen documents this neglected filmic universe, and demonstrates how the cinema has functioned as a cultural space where a core notion of the contemporary world has been rehearsed and problematized.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040799215
• Artikelnr.: 75562304

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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