Notes on Contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Notes on Contributors x
6. Introduction: Facing Forward, Facing Back 1
7. Part I. The Sum of Its Parts: Features, Codes, Practices
8. 1. The Generic Face: Galton, Muybridge and the Photographic Proof of Race 15
9. 2. Mad Faces: Coding Features and Expressions of Female Madness in Physiognomy Texts, Asylum Photographs and Early Cinema 30
10. 3. Elastics of the Film Mouth 47
11. 4. The Problem of Recognition: Celebrity Faces, Photogénie and Facial Recognition Technologies 60
12. 5. Emptied Faces: In Search of an Algorithmic Punctum 75
13. Part II. Reframing the Close-up
14. 6. ‘A Landscape of Faces’: The Farewell and Ecologies of the Face in Independent Asian-American Film 93
15. 7. The New Transactional Face: Rethinking Post-cinematic Aesthetics through The Neon Demon 109
16. 8. Black Faces Matter: Close-ups in Selma, Fruitvale Station and Moonlight 123
17. 9. ‘Sheer Epidermis’: ‘Face Politics’ and the Films of Lynne Ramsay 138
18. 10. Facing Life in the Open: The (Post)humanist Worldmaking of My Octopus Teacher 150
19. 11. Bête Noir(e): Animality, Genre and the Face in Border 165
20. 12. Hejab as Frame in Ten and Beyond 181
21. Part III. Making Faces : Celebrity, Performance, Self
22. 13. The Faces of Ginger: Beauty Makeup, Facial Acting and Hollywood Stardom 195
23. 14. At Face Value: Consuming the Star Image 211
24. 15. The Face Is the Lie that Tells the Truth: Renée Zellweger  and the Mediated Politics of Age, Self and Celebrity 223
25. 16. Mediating the Human in Facial Performance Capture 239
26. 17. Becoming a Woman: The Many Faces of Candice Breitz 256
27. 18. The Face as Technology 273
28. 19. From Holy Grail to Deepfake: The Evolving Digital Face on Screen 288
29. References 303
30. Index 322