Performing Brains on Screen

by Fernando Vidal

Performing 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;...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9462989141
• ISBN13: 9789462989146
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Length: 258 Pages