Contents

pp v-vi

List of Figures

pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements

pp ix-ix

Notes on Contributors

pp x-xiv

Introduction: Facing Forward, Facing Back

pp 1-12

Part I - The Sum of its Parts: Features, Codes, Practices

pp 13-14

1 - The Generic Face: Galton, Muybridge and the Photographic Proof of Race

pp 15-29

2 - Mad Faces: Coding Features and Expressions of Female Madness in Physiognomy Texts, Asylum Photographs and Early Cinema

pp 30-46

3 - Elastics of the Film Mouth

pp 47-59

4 - The Problem of Recognition: Celebrity Faces, Photogénie and Facial Recognition Technologies

pp 60-74

5 - Emptied Faces: In Search of an Algorithmic Punctum

pp 75-90

Part II - Reframing the Close-up

pp 91-92

6 - ‘A Landscape of Faces’: The Farewell and Ecologies of the Face in Independent Asian-American Film

pp 93-108

7 - The New Transactional Face: Rethinking Post-cinematic Aesthetics through The Neon Demon

pp 109-122

8 - Black Faces Matter: Close-ups in Selma, Fruitvale Station and Moonlight

pp 123-137

9 - ‘Sheer Epidermis’: ‘Face Politics’and the Films of Lynne Ramsay

pp 138-149

10 - Facing Life in the Open: The(Post)humanist Worldmaking of My Octopus Teacher

pp 150-164

11 - Bête Noir(e):Animality, Genre and the Face in Border

pp 165-180

12 - Hejab as Frame in Ten and Beyond

pp 181-192

Part III - Making Faces: Celebrity, Performance, Self

pp 193-194

13 - The Faces of Ginger: Beauty Makeup, Facial Acting and Hollywood Stardom

pp 195-210

14 - At Face Value: Consuming the Star Image

pp 211-222

15 - The Face is the Lie that Tells the Truth: Renée Zellweger and the Mediated Politics of Age, Self and Celebrity

pp 223-238

16 - Mediating the Human in Facial Performance Capture

pp 239-255

17 - Becoming a Woman: The Many Faces of Candice Breitz

pp 256-272

18 - The Face as Technology

pp 273-287

19 - From Holy Grail to Deepfake: The Evolving Digital Face on Screen

pp 288-302

References

pp 303-321

Index

pp 322-334