{"product_id":"darwins-screens-evolutionary-aesthetics-time-and-sexual-display-in-the-cinema-paperback","title":"Darwin's Screens: Evolutionary Aesthetics, Time and Sexual Display in the Cinema - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBarbara Creed\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDarwin's Screens\u003c\/i\u003e addresses a major gap in film scholarship--the key influence of Charles Darwin's theories on the history of the cinema. Much has been written on the effect of other great thinkers such as Freud and Marx but very little on the important role played by Darwinian ideas on the evolution of the newest art form of the twentieth century. Creed argues that Darwinian ideas influenced the evolution of early film genres such as horror, the detective film, science fiction, film noir and the musical. Her study draws on Darwin's theories of sexual selection, deep time and transformation, and on emotions, death, and the meaning of human and animal in order to rethink some of the canonical arguments of film and cinema studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBarbara Creed\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Cinema Studies and Head of the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. She is author of the acclaimed \u003ci\u003eThe Monstrous-feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eMedia Matrix: Sexing the New Reality\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePhallic Panic: Film, Horror \u0026amp; the Primal Uncanny\u003c\/i\u003e. She is also a well-known film critic and media commentator, and her writings on cinema have been translated into many languages for a range of international journals and anthologies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.54 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 23, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48631957520633,"sku":"9780522857092","price":47.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/jcJiP8YvGl9780522857092.webp?v=1783123927","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/darwins-screens-evolutionary-aesthetics-time-and-sexual-display-in-the-cinema-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}