LEADER 04230nam 2200565 450 001 9910817825203321 005 20230627180347.0 010 $a90-485-4155-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9789048541553 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6894528 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6894528 035 $a(CKB)21325751000041 035 $a(DE-B1597)617781 035 $a(DE-B1597)9789048541553 035 $a(OCoLC)1302006720 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_100889 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9789048541553 035 $a(EXLCZ)9921325751000041 100 $a20230627d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPerforming brains on screen /$fFernando Vidal 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aAmsterdam, Netherlands :$cAmsterdam University Press B.V.,$d[2022] 210 4$dİ2022 215 $a1 online resource (258 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$aPrint version: Vidal, Fernando Performing Brains on Screen Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press,c2022 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tTable of Contents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tNote on References and Images -- $t1. Brainhood and the Cinema -- $tIntroduction -- $tThe ?Deficit Model? and the Agency of Film -- $tBs to Zs -- $tFilmic Brains in the Neurobiological Age -- $t2. Brains in the Pulps -- $tIntroduction -- $tResources -- $tScientifiction, Textual and Visual -- $tAdvertisement and ?Prophetic Insight? -- $tBefore Gernsback -- $tWeird Tales -- $tStories Astounding and Amazing -- $t3. Naked Brains and Living Heads -- $tIntroduction -- $tBrain Movies -- $tBody Parts -- $tThe Donor Portion -- $tLiving Heads -- $tSome Filmic Allografts -- $tParadox of the Naked Brain -- $t4. Personal Survival -- $tIntroduction -- $tImmortality and the Brain -- $tAdam and Tithonus -- $tStaying the Same, Becoming Someone Else -- $t5. Frankenstein?s Brains -- $tIntroduction -- $tShelley?s Novel and Frankenstein Films -- $tThe Final Touch: Frankenstein (1931) -- $tThe Universal Series -- $tThe Hammer Series -- $tBeyond Universal and Hammer -- $t6. Memories, Lost and Regained -- $tIntroduction -- $tA Preference for Retrograde Amnesia -- $tLocalizing Memory in the Filmic Brain -- $tPersonal Identity and the Authenticity of Memory -- $tErasing Memories -- $tEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) -- $tDark City (1998) -- $t7. ?Imagine, They Are in the Human Mind? -- $tBibliography -- $tFilms -- $tIndex 330 $aPerforming Brains on Screen deals with film enactments and representations of the belief that human beings are essentially their brains, a belief that embodies one of the most influential modern ways of understanding the human. Films have performed brains in two chief ways: by turning physical brains into protagonists, as in the "brain movies" of the 1950s, which show terrestrial or extra-terrestrial disembodied brains carrying out their evil intentions; or by giving brains that remain unseen inside someone's head an explicitly major role, as in brain transplantation films or their successors since the 1980s, in which brain contents are transferred and manipulated by means of information technology. Through an analysis of filmic genres and particular movies, Performing Brains on Screen documents this neglected filmic universe, and demonstrates how the cinema has functioned as a cultural space where a core notion of the contemporary world has been rehearsed and problematized. 606 $aHuman body in motion pictures 606 $aNeurosciences in motion pictures 606 $aPsychology 610 $aBrain Films, B Movies, Biopolitics, Thought Experiments, Personal Identity. 615 0$aHuman body in motion pictures. 615 0$aNeurosciences in motion pictures. 615 0$aPsychology. 676 $a791.436561 700 $aVidal$b Fernando$01682990 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817825203321 996 $aPerforming brains on screen$94053470 997 $aUNINA