50th Anniversary Issue
Screen Theorizing Today
Volume 50, number 1
Edited by Annette Kuhn
More than a special issue, Screen and Screen Theorizing Today celebrates Screen’s golden jubilee with 15 exciting new essays. Under the headings ‘Spectatorship and looking’, ‘The Screen Experience’, ‘After cinema’ and ‘Screen Cultures’, established and newer scholars in screen studies consider key theoretical issues now facing a discipline that has been formed in the past 50 years, and in whose creation Screen has played a central role. Screen studies has earned an established place in secondary, tertiary and continuing education curricula and now generates new research and scholarship of growing volume, diversity and quality. A substantial introductory essay sets these issues in the context of changes and developments in Screen and screen theorizing over the past half century.
Introduction
ANNETTE KUHN: Screen and screen theorizing today
Part 1: Spectatorship and looking
ROB LAPSLEY: Cinema, the impossible, and a psychoanalysis to come
STEPHANIE MARRIOTT: The audience of one: adult chat television and the architecture of participation
VICKY LEBEAU: The arts of looking: D.W. Winnicott and Michael Haneke
RICHARD RUSHTON: Deleuzian spectatorship
Part 2: The screen experience
FRANCESCO CASETTI: Filmic experience
JOHN ELLIS: What are we expected to feel? Witness, textuality, and the audiovisual
MARTINE BEUGNET and ELIZABETH EZRA: A portrait of the twenty-first century
LAURA U. MARKS: Information, secrets, and enigmas: an enfolding-unfolding aesthetics for cinema
Part 3: After cinema
THOMAS ELSAESSER: Freud as media theorist: mystic writing-pads and the matter of memory
JI-HOON KIM: The post-medium condition and the explosion of cinema
ELIZABETH COWIE: Notes on documentary sounds and images in the gallery: the time and place of the real and of reality
DALE HUDSON and PATRICIA R ZIMMERMANN: Cinephilia, technophilia, and collaborative remix zones
Part 4: Screen cultures
CHARLES R. ACLAND: Curtains, carts, and the mobile screen
JOHN T. CALDWELL: Screen studies and industrial ‘theorizing’
LEE GRIEVESON: On governmentality and screens