Elizabeth Ezra Unisex White The Cinema Of Things: Globalization & The Posthuman Object In

Name: Elizabeth Ezra Unisex White The Cinema Of Things: Globalization & The Posthuman Object In
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Elizabeth Ezra

The Cinema of ThingsGlobalization and the Posthuman Object\nAuthor(s): Elizabeth Ezra\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781501352492, 978-1501352492\nSynopsis\nThis book explores the border zones between life and non-life as represented in cinema from the end of the nineteenth century, when France led the global film industry, to the first decades of the twenty-first century, when world film markets are dominated by Hollywood. Informed by both the Internet of Things and the Parliament of Things, The Cinema of Things examines cinematic depictions of the ways in which human beings are prosthetically engaged with life beyond the self in the global age: by hyperconsumption; by structures of racial and sexual objectification that reduce people designated as others to objects of fascination, sexual gratification, warfare, or labor; and by information technology that replaces human agency with encoding. \n\n Con.