{"product_id":"the-cinema-of-things-globalization-and-the-posthuman-object-paperback","title":"The Cinema of Things: Globalization and the Posthuman Object - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElizabeth Ezra\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Cinema of Things\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Consumer culture, a key feature of globalization, posits that we must supplement ourselves with commodities without which we would otherwise be incomplete: but these prostheses, rather than enhancing us, end up creating the insufficiencies they were meant to overcome. We are engulfed by objects, to the extent that we ourselves are becoming objectified. At the same time, objects, especially technological objects, are becoming increasingly autonomous, assuming roles that were once the preserve of human agency. We are becoming the objects of globalization, and cinema imaginatively represents this transformation, but it also offers us the possibility of retaining our humanity in the process.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eElizabeth Ezra \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of Cinema and Culture at the University of Stirling in Scotland. Major publications include: \u003ci\u003eThe Colonial Unconscious\u003c\/i\u003e (2000); \u003ci\u003eGeorges Méliès: The Birth of the Auteur \u003c\/i\u003e(2000); J\u003ci\u003eean-Pierre Jeunet\u003c\/i\u003e (2008); \u003ci\u003eEuropean Cinema \u003c\/i\u003e(2004); and \u003ci\u003eTransnational Cinema: The Film Reader \u003c\/i\u003e(2006) as well as numerous contributions to scholarly journals including \u003ci\u003eScreen \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Yale French Studies\u003c\/i\u003e. Current work includes projects on screen tests and on the posthuman in children's literature and cinema.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.46 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 30, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52710458229043,"sku":"9781501352492","price":93.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/WDAzNkZIQi8wSnEyMktJbitMWERnUT09.webp?v=1763492582","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-cinema-of-things-globalization-and-the-posthuman-object-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}