6. The Atmospheric Screen: Turner, Hazlitt, Ruskin

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Introduction 7
4. Becoming Screen
5. 1. Primal Screens 27
6. 2. ‘Schutz und Schirm’: Screening in German During Early Modern Times 51
7. Spaces
8. 3. Face and Screen: Toward a Genealogy of the Media Façade 73
9. 4. Sensing Screens: From Surface to Situation 115
10. 5. ‘Taking the Plunge’: The New Immersive Screens 135
11. Atmospheres
12. 6. The Atmospheric Screen: Turner, Hazlitt, Ruskin 159
13. 7. The Fog Medium: Visualizing and Engineering the Atmosphere 187
14. 8. The Charge of a Light Barricade: Optics and Ballistics in the Ambiguous Being of Screens 215
15. Formats
16. 9. Flat Bayreuth: A Genealogy of Opera as Screened 237
17. 10. Imaginary Screens: The Hypnotic Gesture and Early Film 269
18. 11. Material. Human. Divine. Notes on the Vertical Screen 293
19. Acknowledgments 321
20. Index 323