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From AI to climate change, recent technological, ecological, cultural, and social 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.
List of contents
- Introduction
- 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
About the author
Missy Molloy is Senior Lecturer in Film at Victoria University of Wellington in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Pansy Duncan is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Massey University in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand.
Claire Henry is Lecturer in Screen at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia.
Summary
From AI to climate change, recent technological, ecological, cultural, and social 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.
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The reader comes away with the sense that in its depiction of contemporary life, cinema is cooperating with posthuman studies to decenter the experience of the human, as conceived by liberal humanism.
