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008			171115s2017 nyu ob 000 0 eng d
020			_a9781501328848
020			_z9781501328824 (PDF)
020			_z9781501328831 (electronic book)
020			_z9781501328855 (hardback)
041			_aeng
082			_a791.43/67 _223
100			_aEzra, Elizabeth, _d1965- _eauthor. _918435
245			_aThe cinema of things : _bglobalization and the posthuman object / _cElizabeth Ezra.
260			_aNew York : _bBloomsbury Academic, _c2017.
300			_a1 online resource
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
520	8		_aThis 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, The Cinema of Things 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. 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
533			_aElectronic reproduction. _bLondon : _cBloomsbury Publishing, _d2017 _nAvailable via World Wide Web. _nAccess limited by licensing agreement.
650			_aExoticism in motion pictures. _918436
650			_aMotion pictures and globalization. _918437
650			_aMotion pictures _xSetting and scenery. _918438
650			_aObject (Philosophy) in motion pictures. _918439
650			_2Film theory & criticism
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.5040/9781501328848?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
942			_cEBK
999			_c13290 _d13290