Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Notes on Contributors xi
5. Note on Cover Image xiv
6. Endorsement xv
7. chapter 1 Introduction: Screens and Illusionism: Alternative Teleologies of Mediation 1
8. Part I Screens as Perceptual Vehicles
9. 2. Does Size Matter? Screens, Illusions, and Moving Picture Dispositifs 23
10. 3. Not Understanding Media: From Optical Toys to Artificial Intelligence 61
11. 4. From Eyes to Hands: Behind the Embrace of the “Screen-Free” Playscape 75
12. 5. Wandering Eyes: A Meditation on Animated Deep Space Devices of Wonder 93
13. Part II Mediation and Its Avatars
14. 6. Resurrections of the Dead: The Technological Uncanny of Ghost Production 113
15. 7. Showing the Impossible: The Anatomy of a Cinematic Trick Image 138
16. 8. The Flight of the Nightingale in the Era of #BlackLivesMatter 154
17. 9. No Strings Attached: Forms of Corruption 177
18. 10. Talking Furniture: Féeries for a Troubled Time in Proust, Ravel, and Chomón 198
19. Part III Alternative Teleologies of Media
20. 11. “Amid the Moving Pageant”: Wordsworth’s Photographic Encounters 231
21. 12. Waves from an Old Film: The Aging of Cinema and the Uncanny Earth 253
22. Index 276