Description: Offers key historical and interpretative texts on the development and role of "the screen" in communications and the social sphere.
Brief description: Stephen Monteiro is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Concordia University, Canada. He is the author of Screen Presence: Cinema Culture and the Art of Warhol, Rauschenberg, Hatoum, and Gordon (2016).
Review Quotes: This volume represents a timely, capacious, and essential accounting of screens as media-a thorough thinking-through of screens not only as holders of images but as material sites of transmission, communication, and the production of knowledge. The book's cross-media and transhistorical approach brilliantly reveals new ways to conceive of screen studies' increasingly central place in humanities scholarship.
Gregory Zinman, Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA