Author Shane Denson

Shane Denson

Shane Denson is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies and, by Courtesy, of German Studies and of Communication at Stanford University. He also serves as Director of the PhD Program in Modern Thought & Literature. His research interests span a variety of media and historical periods, including phenomenological and media-philosophical approaches to film, digital media, and serialized popular forms. He is the author of Discorrelated Images (Duke University Press, 2020) and Postnaturalism: Frankenstein, Film, and the Anthropotechnical Interface (Transcript- Verlag, 2014) and co-editor of several collections: Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives (Bloomsbury, 2013), Digital Seriality (special issue of Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture, 2014), and Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century Film (REFRAME Books, 2016). See shanedenson.com for more information.

DeepFakes and the (Un)Gendering of the Flesh

Shane Denson

January 2023

The Geometry of Movement: Computer-Generated Imagery in Film

Computer-generated imagery used to be a fairly well-defined object, compartmentalized from the indexical images of celluloid-based cinematography and even live-action videography. CGI would appear as clearly re...