[ecrea] New book: Body Images in The Post-Cinematic Scenario

Body Images in The Post-Cinematic Scenario. The Digitization of Bodies
Edited by Alberto Brodesco and Federico Giordano
Mimesis International, Milano-Udine, 2018
Cover: Paperback
ISBN: 978-88-6977-109-5
Pages: 195
Date: 2017
Price: $ 27.50 / £ 16.00 / € 20,00

What is the status of body in the realm of digital media? This volume
studies how our perception of body has been modified by new media
(videogames, transmedia platforms, ARGs), new narratives
(science-fictions, TV series) and new devices (wearable technologies,
Virtual Reality, cosmetic surgery). Which body images and identities
do emerge? Within the ‘Post-Cinematic’ or ‘Post-Media’ condition, the
body becomes a changeable, flexible ‘unstable object’. The first part
of this book analyses the presence of body in television/film
productions 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 his/her body is subject to shape
modification.

http://mimesisinternational.com/body-images-in-the-post-cinematic-scenario/

CONTENTS

Introduction
The Border Within
The Human Body in Contemporary Media
Alberto Brodesco, Federico Giordano

PART 1 – DIGITAL BODIES: FICTIONS, ARTS, DAILY LIVES

FORMS OF CYBORGISM IN GABRIELE SALVATORES’ NIRVANA
Paolo Russo

LA PERFORMANCE NUMÉRIQUE ENTRE CORPS ET ULTRACORPS
Christian Uva

BODY DOUBLES
Scientific imagery and typologies of body multiplication
in contemporary television series
Alberto Brodesco

PRENATAL PORTRAITS
Ultrasound imagery in expectant mothers’
autobiographical narrative
Deborah Toschi

TAHIR SQUARE
A Space Extended to the People Watching it
Ludovica Fales

HYBRIDITY, EMPATHY AND THE ‘TOTAL ARTWORK’
IN METAMORPHOSIS: TITIAN
Susan Broadhurst

PART 2 – DIGITAL MEDIA AND VIEWER’S BODIES

TRANSMEDIA AND ‘TECHNIQUES OF THE BODY’
Marta Boni

HAPTIC CINEMA
Smartphones and the Spectator’s Body
Kata Szita

‘TOUCH ME, HIT ME, KILL ME!’
Wearable, Haptic and Multisensorial Devices
as Tools for a New Bodily Spectatorship
Federico Giordano

MOBILE/LOCATIVE PARADIGM
Embodiment and Storytelling in Digital Media
Giulio Lughi

LIFE IS REAL = REALITY IS A PLATFORM
Creating Engineered Experiences
where fiction and reality merge
Ariana Dongus

NEW IDENTITIES?
Cosmetic Surgery and Bodily Identity
Juan Antonio Gómez Heredia

BODY IMAGES
People-machine configurations in the context of digital media
Christina Schachtner

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