We live in an era of screens. No longer just the place where we view movies, or watch TV at night, screens are now ubiquitous, the source of the majority of information we consume daily, and a crucial component of our basic interactions with colleagues, friends, and family. This transformation has happened almost without us realizing it-and certainly without the full theoretical and intellectual analysis it deserves.Screens brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines to analyse the growing presence and place of screens in our lives today. They tackle such topics as the archaeology of screens, film and media theories about our interactions with them, their use in contemporary art, and the new avenues they open up for showing films and other media in non-traditional venues.

Dominique Chateau is Professor émeritus at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He teached film studies and philosophy of art. He wrote some personal books on film theory and has been Subjectivity's editor, the Second volume in the Key Debates series, and Screens's co-editor with José Moure.José Moure is Professor at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He teaches film studies. He wrote some personal books on film history and theory and has been Subjectivity's contributor and Screens's co-editor with Dominique Chateau.

EditorialAcknowledgmentsIntroduction:Dominique Chateau, José Moure. Section One: Archeology/History1. "Rectangle-Film" (1918), Emmanuele Toddi [Pietro silvio Rivetta]2. "Intersections of Protection and Display in the History of the Screen", Giorgio Avezzù3. "The Stuff of Screens", Ian Christie4. "History of screening", José MoureSection Two: Technology and new practices1. "Scaling Down: Cinerama on Blu-ray", Ariel Rogers2. "From the augmented body to the somatic image", Richard Bégin3. "Screenic touching and screenic seeing", Wanda Strauven4. "3D screen in theater space", Simon LefebvreSection Three: Theory1. "From Screen-scape to Screen-sphere": A Meditation in Medias Res", Vivan Sobchack2. ???, Raymond Bellour3. "La notion d'écran mental. Écran intériorisé, écran rêvé, écran construit", Roger Odin4. "Between denial and fascination : screen attraction", Dominique ChateauTBC. Salvador Rubio MarcoTBC. Erkki HuhtamoTBC. Nanna VerhoeffSection Four: DialoguesLaura Marks in conversationMartine Beugnet & Annie van den Oever in conversation??Laura Mulvey on so-called "screen theory"NotesGeneral BibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex of NamesIndex of Film TitlesIndex of Subjects