The Palgrave Handbook of Posthumanism in Film and Television

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiii

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2. Posthumanism in Film and Television

   1. Posthumanism in Film and Television

      • Michael Hauskeller, Thomas D. Philbeck, Curtis D. Carbonell

      Pages 1-7

3. Paving the Way to Posthumanism: The Precursors

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. From DelGuat to ScarJo

      • William Brown

      Pages 11-18

   3. ‘Self-Immolation by Technology’: Jean Baudrillard and the Posthuman in Film and Television

      • Jon Baldwin

      Pages 19-27

   4. Derrida on Screen

      • Stefan Herbrechter

      Pages 28-36

   5. Bruno Latour: From the Non-Modern to the Posthuman

      • T. Hugh Crawford

      Pages 37-44

   6. Friedrich Nietzsche and the Posthuman/Transhuman in Film and Television

      • Babette Babich

      Pages 45-53

4. Varieties of People-to-Come: Posthuman Becomings

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55

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   2. Terminated: The Life and Death of the Cyborg in Film and Television

      • Rhys Owain Thomas

      Pages 57-65

   3. Of Iron Men and Green Monsters: Superheroes and Posthumanism

      • Dan Hassler-Forest

      Pages 66-76

   4. Growing Your Own: Monsters from the Lab and Molecular Ethics in Posthumanist Film

      • Anna Powell

      Pages 77-87

   5. Post-Singularity Entities in Film and TV

      • David Roden

      Pages 88-98

   6. Chimeras and Hybrids: The Digital Swarms of the Posthuman Image

      • Drew Ayers

      Pages 99-108

5. Rise of the Machines: Posthuman Intellects

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109

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   2. Androids and the Posthuman in Television and Film

      • Kevin LaGrandeur

      Pages 111-119

   3. ‘Change for the Machines’? Posthumanism as Digital Sentience

      • Sherryl Vint

      Pages 120-129

   4. Alive in the Net

      • Jeff Menne, Jay Clayton

      Pages 130-140

   5. Autonomous Fighting Machines: Narratives and Ethics

      • Dónal P. O’Mathúna

      Pages 141-149

6. Body and Soul: Posthuman Subjectivities

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151

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What does popular culture's relationship with cyborgs, robots, vampires and zombies tell us about being human? Insightful scholarly perspectives shine a light on how film and television evince and portray the philosophical roots, the social ramifications and the future visions of a posthumanist world.

• Posthumanism
• Posthuman
• Film Studies
• Cinema
• Film
• Television
• Science Fiction
• Transhumanism
• Ontology
• Technology
• Cultural Studies
• Philosophy
• cinema
• ethics
• film
• Friedrich Nietzsche
• philosophy
• television

• University of Exeter, UK

  Michael Hauskeller

• World Economic Forum, Switzerland

  Thomas D. Philbeck

• Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research, UAE

  Curtis D. Carbonell

Drew Ayers, Santa Barbara City College, USA Babette Babich, Fordham University, USA Jon Baldwin, London Metropolitan University, UK Douglas Brown, Falmouth University, UK William Brown, University of Roehampton, UK John Bruni, Grand Valley State University, USA Ivan Callus, University of Malta Curtis D. Carbonell, Khalifa University, UAE Steen Ledet Christiansen, Aalborg University, Denmark Jay Clayton, Vanderbilt University, USA T. Hugh Crawford, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA James DiGiovanna, CUNY, USA Francesca Ferrando, New York University, USA Elaine Graham, University of Chester, UK Graham Harman, American University in Cairo, Egypt Dan Hassler-Forest, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Michael Hauskeller, University of Exeter, UK Phil Henderson, University of Victoria, Canada Stefan Herbrechter, Heidelberg University, Germany Eric Hill, Winthrop University, USA James Hughes, Trinity College, USA Joel Krueger, University of Exeter, UK Tanya Krzywinska, Falmouth University, UK Kevin LaGrandeur, New York Institute of Technology, USA Tarja Laine, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Brett Lunceford, Rhetorical Scholar, USA Teodora Manea, University of Exeter, UK David Meeler, Winthrop University, USA Jeff Menne, Oklahoma State University, USA Pramod K. Nayar, University of Hyderabad, India Dónal P O'Mathúna, Dublin City University, Ireland Alexander D. Ornella, University of Hull, UK Thomas D. Philbeck, World Economic Forum, Geneva Anat Pick, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Ralph Pordzik, Würzburg University, Germany Anna Powell, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK David Roden, Open University, UK Rhys Owain Thomas, University of East Anglia, UK Sherryl Vint, University of California, Riverside, USA Hilary Wheaton, University of Exeter, UK Hub Zwart, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands

Policies and ethics