Postnaturalism : Frankenstein, film, and the anthropotechnical interface / Shane Denson ; with a foreword by Mark B.N. Hansen.

Originally presented as the author's doctoral thesis at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover.

Includes bibliographical references.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 12, 2015).

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword: Logics of Transition / Hansen, Mark B.N. -- 1. Introduction: Monster Movies and Metaphysics -- 2. Frankenstein's Filmic Progenies: A Techno-Phenomenological Approach -- 3. Monsters in Transit: Edison's Frankenstein -- 4. To the Heart of (the) Matter: Frankenstein, Embodiment, Materiality -- 5. Of Steam Engines, Revolutions, and the (Un)natural History of Matter: A Techno-Scientific Interlude -- 6. Re-Focusing Cinematic Double Vision: Seriality, Mediality, and Mediation in Postnatural Perspective -- 7. Universal Monsters and Monstrous Particulars -- 8. Lines of Flight: Transitional Thoughts by Way of Conclusion -- Works Cited.

"Postnaturalism" offers an original account of human-technological co-evolution and argues that film and media theory, in particular, needs to be re-evaluated from the perspective of our material interfaces with a constantly changing environment. Extrapolating from Frankenstein films and the resonances they establish between a hybrid monster and the spectator hooked into the machinery of the cinema, Shane Denson engages debates in science studies and philosophy of technology to rethink histories of cinema, media, technology, and ultimately of the affective channels of our own embodiment. With a foreword by media theorist Mark B.N. Hansen.

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