Deep Mediations

"A timely collection of critical essays that illuminates the aesthetic constitution and political deployment of depth in historical and contemporary media formations."Critical Inquiry

Karen Redrobe is Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Professor of Cinema and Modern Media at University of Pennsylvania. Jeff Scheible is lecturer of film studies at Kings College London. He is author of Digital Shift: The Cultural Logic of Punctuation (Minnesota, 2015).

Contents Preface Part I. Depths of the Moving Image: Perception, Spectatorship, and Film Theory 1. From the Flat Plane, an Architecture of Light: Filming Space in Interwar Animation Katherine Rochester 2. Locomotive Views: Lateral Movement and the Flatness of the Moving Image Jordan Schonig 3. Deep in the Cave Jean Ma 4. On a Lonely Planet, Feeling-in-Depth: Wong Kar-wais 2046 and Chris Markers Sans Soleil Jinhee Choi Part II. Depth Hermeneutics and Surface Turns 5. Depth Effects: Citizen Kane, Citizenfour, and the Deep Time of Cinema Jeff Scheible 6. Bankers Dream of Banking, or Against the Interpretation of Dreams Jennifer Fay 7. Blackness at the Heart: Extruding Sovereignty in Nancys and Deniss The Intruder Alessandra Raengo and Laurel Ahnert 8. Inaudible Evidence: Counterforensic Listening in Contemporary Documentary Art Pooja Rangan 9. To Narrate or Describe? Experimental Documentary beyond Docufiction Erika Balsom Part III. Deep Space, Deep Time 10. Sinkholes, GIFs, and Cinematic Eco-catastrophe Karl Schoonover 11. Underground Film: Thinking Vertically across the and of Cinema and Media Studies Karen Redrobe 12. Transparency at Depth: Dark Mediation of the Deep Seabed Lisa Han 13. Depth Mediators: Undersea Cables, Network Infrastructure, and the Deep Ocean Nicole Starosielski 14. From Planetary Depth to Surface Measure, or How to Read the Future from an Image Jussi Parikka Part IV. Deep Networks 15. Depth in Deep Learning: Knowledgeable, Layered, Impenetrable Taylor Arnold and Lauren Tilton 16. From Stereoscopic Depth to Deep Learning Brooke Belisle 17. The Deep Realness of Deepfake Pornography: A Conversation Shaka McGlotten, Susanna Paasonen, and John Paul Stadler Acknowledgments Contributors Index