Here you will find a list of published articles, along with links to PDFs and/or external files.
"Post-Cinema." Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Animation Studies, vol. 3: Theories, Methods, Contexts. Eds. Deborah Levitt and Heather Warren-Crow. London: Bloomsbury, forthcoming.
"Digital." Energized: 101 Words for a New Politics of Energy. Eds. Jennifer Wenzel and Imre Szeman. Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Press, 2024. Forthcoming.
"Tarzan and the Talkies: Mediating Science and Fiction." Georgian Journal of American Studies (2024): forthcoming.
"Ten Statements on Technics." André Brock, Dominique Chateau, Beth Coleman, Shane Denson, Amanda Egbe, Yuriko Furuhata, Tom Gunning, Jeffrey West Kirkwood, Laura Mulvey, and Jean-Christoph Plantin. Technics: Media in the Digital Age. Eds. Nicholas Baer and Annie van den Oever. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2024. 25-58. Online or PDF.
"Artificial Imagination." Cinephile 18.1 (Spring 2024): forthcoming.
"The New Seriality." Qui Parle 32.2 (December 2023): 301-339. Online.
"From Sublime Awe to Abject Cringe: On the Embodied Processing of AI Art." Journal of Visual Culture 22.2 (August 2023): 146-175. Online or PDF.
"How Does It Make You Feel?" Outland (July 26, 2023). Part of a special dossier on AI edited by Mark Amerika. Online or PDF.
"DeepFakes and the (Un)Gendering of the Flesh." Senses of Cinema 104 (January 2023). Part of a special dossier on "The Geometry of Movement: Computer-Generated Imagery in Film." Online or PDF.
"Frankenstein and the Media of Serial Figures." Monstrosity, Identity, and Music: Mediating Uncanny Creatures from Frankenstein to Post-Humanism. Eds. Alexis Luko and James Wright. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. 43-63.
"The Politics of Pre-Narrative Seriality." Contribution to: Lukas R. A. Wilde and Shane Denson, "Historicizing and Theorizing Pre-Narrative Figures." Narrative 30.2 (2022): 152-168. Online or PDF.
"Gaming and the 'Parergodic' Work of Seriality in Interactive Digital Environments." Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture 11.1 (2020): 9-37. Online or PDF.
"'Thus isolation is a project.' Notes Toward a Phenomenology of Screen-Mediated Life." Pandemic Media: Preliminary Notes Toward an Inventory. Eds. Philipp Dominik Keidl, Vinzenz Hediger, Laliv Melamed, and Antonio Somaini. Lüneburg: meson press, 2020. 315-322. Online or PDF.
"The Horror of Discorrelation: Mediating Unease in Post-Cinematic Screens and Networks." Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (formerly Cinema Journal) 60.1 (Fall 2020): 26-48. PDF.
"Diskorrelation und die Ästhetik der Kantendetektion." Internationales Jahrbuch für Medienphilosophie 6 (2020): 251-264. PDF.
"Dividuated Images." Coils of the Serpent: Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power 5 (2020), special issue: Control Societies I: Media, Culture, Technology. 153-162. Online or PDF.
"Edge Detection." Media Fields 14 (2019): At the Edge. Online or PDF.
"Post-Cinema After Extinction." Media Fields 13 (2018): Mediating the Anthropocene. Online or PDF.
"Border Crossings: Serial Figures and the Evolution of Media" (co-authored with Ruth Mayer). NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies 7.2 (Autumn 2018): 65-84. Online or PDF.
"Frankenstein, Bioethics, and Technological Irreversibility." Reprint in Death and Anti-Death, Vol. 16: 200 Years After Frankenstein. Ed. Charles Tandy. Ann Arbor: Ria UP, 2018. 59-108. PDF.
"Techno-Phenomenology, Medium as Interface, and the Metaphysics of Change." Conditions of Mediation. Eds. Tim Markham and Scott Rodgers. New York: Peter Lang, 2017. 91-100. PDF.
"Spectral Seriality: The Sights and Sounds of Count Dracula" (co-authored with Ruth Mayer). Media of Serial Narrative. Ed. Frank Kelleter. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2017. 108-124. PDF.
"Digital Seriality” (co-authored with Andreas Jahn-Sudmann). Media of Serial Narrative. Ed. Frank Kelleter. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2017. 261-283. PDF.
"Pre-Sponsive Gestures." ETC Media: Revue d’art médiatique et contemporain 110 (2017): 40-45. PDF.
"Speculation, Transition, and the Passing of Post-Cinema." Cinéma & Cie: International Film Studies Journal, Special Issue No. 26-27 (Spring/Fall 2016): "Post What? Post When? Thinking Moving Images beyond the Post-Medium/Post-Cinema Condition." Eds. Vinzenz Hediger and Miriam De Rosa. 21-32. PDF.
"Crazy Cameras, Discorrelated Images, and the Post-Perceptual Mediation of Post-Cinematic Affect." Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century Film. Eds. Shane Denson and Julia Leyda. Falmer, East Sussex: REFRAME Books, 2016. PDF.
"Perspectives on Post-Cinema" (co-authored with Julia Leyda). Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century Film. Eds. Shane Denson and Julia Leyda. Falmer, East Sussex: REFRAME Books, 2016. PDF.
"Post-Cinematic Affect: A Conversation in Five Parts" (roundtable discussion, with Elena del Río, Paul Bowman, Adrian Ivakhiv, Patricia MacCormack, Steven Shaviro, Kristopher L. Cannon, Michael O'Rourke, and Karin Sellberg; revised version of an in media res theme week on Steven Shaviro's Post-Cinematic Affect, August 29-September 2, 2011). Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century Film. Eds. Shane Denson and Julia Leyda. Falmer, East Sussex: REFRAME Books, 2016. PDF.
"Introduction: Ludic Seriality, Digital Seriality" (co-authored with Andreas Jahn-Sudmann). Digital Seriality. Special issue of Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture. Eds. Shane Denson and Andreas Jahn-Sudmann. Eludamos 8 (2014): 1-5. PDF.
"The Logic of the Line Segment: Continuity and Discontinuity in the Serial-Queen Melodrama." Serialization in Popular Culture. Eds. Robert Allen and Thijs van den Berg. New York: Routledge, 2014. 65-79. PDF.
"Digital Seriality: On the Serial Aesthetics and Practice of Digital Games" (co-authored with Andreas Jahn-Sudmann). Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture 7.1 (2013): 1-32. PDF.
"Framing, Unframing, Reframing: Retconning the Transnational Work of Comics." Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives: Comics at the Crossroads. Eds. Shane Denson, Christina Meyer, and Daniel Stein. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2013. 271-284. PDF.
"Introducing Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives: Comics at the Crossroads" (co-authored with Christina Meyer and Daniel Stein). Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives: Comics at the Crossroads. Eds. Shane Denson, Christina Meyer, and Daniel Stein. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2013. 1-12. PDF.
"Post-Cinematic Affect: Post-Continuity, the Irrational Camera, Thoughts on 3D" (roundtable discussion with Julia Leyda and Therese Grisham). La Furia Umana 14 (2012). Reprinted in Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century Film. Eds. Shane Denson and Julia Leyda. Falmer, East Sussex: REFRAME Books, 2016. PDF.
"Bildstörung. Serielle Figuren und der Fernseher" [Image Interference. Serial Figures and the Television] (co-authored with Ruth Mayer). Die Serie. Special Issue of Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft. Eds. Daniela Wentz, Lorenz Engell, Jens Schröter, Herbert Schwaab, and Benjamin Beil. Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft 7 (2012): 90-102. PDF.
"Frame, Sequence, Medium: Comics in Plurimedial and Transnational Perspective." Transnational American Studies. Ed. Udo J. Hebel. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2012. 561-580. PDF.
"Grenzgänger: Serielle Figuren im Medienwechsel" [Border-Crossers: Serial Figures and Media Change] (co-authored with Ruth Mayer). Populäre Serialität: Narration-Evolution-Distinktion. Zum seriellen Erzählen seit dem 19. Jahrhundert. Ed. Frank Kelleter. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2012. 185-203. PDF.
Faith in Technology: Televangelism and the Mediation of Immediate Experience.” Phenomenology & Practice 5.2 (2011): 93-119. PDF.
Marvel Comics' Frankenstein: A Case Study in the Media of Serial Figures." American Comic Books and Graphic Novels. Special Issue of Amerikastudien/American Studies. Eds. Daniel Stein, Christina Meyer, and Micha Edlich. Amerikastudien 56.4 (2011): 531-53. PDF.
"'To be continued...': Seriality and Serialization in Interdisciplinary Perspective." Journal of Literary Theory Online (17 June 2011). Online or PDF.
"Between Technology and Art: Functions of Film in Transitional-Era Cinema." Funktionen von Kunst. Eds. Daniel Martin Feige, Tilmann Köppe, and Gesa zur Nieden. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2009. 127-142. PDF.
"Tarzan und der Tonfilm: Verhandlungen zwischen science und fiction." [Tarzan and the Talkies: Mediating Science and Fiction.] "Ich Tarzan." Affenmenschen und Menschenaffen zwischen Science und Fiction. Eds. Gesine Krüger, Ruth Mayer, and Marianne Sommer. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2008. 113-130. PDF.
"Techno-Habitats and Media Habits: Reflections on Contemporary Children’s Television." Philament 12 (2008): 113-117. PDF.
"Re-Embodying the Sonographic Experience." Philament 11 (2007): 64-67. PDF.
"Frankenstein, Bioethics, and Technological Irreversibility." Studies in Irreversibility. Texts and Contexts. Ed. Benjamin Schreier. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. 134-166. PDF.
"Incorporations: Melodrama and Monstrosity in James Whale's Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein." Melodrama! The Mode of Excess from Early America to Hollywood. Eds. Frank Kelleter, Barbara Krah, and Ruth Mayer. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2007. 209-228. PDF.
"Streaming Mind, Streaming Body." In Media Res, 25 April 2023. Part of the MediaCommons/In Media Res theme week on “The Contemporary Streaming Style (Part 2),” 24-28 April 2023. Online.
Videographic Frankenstein. Online exhibition of scholarly and creative video commemorating 200 years of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, featuring works curated for an exhibition at Stanford University in Fall 2018. Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures 19 (2019): Online.
"The Meaning of Animation in Edison's Frankenstein (1910)." Video essay. In Videographic Frankenstein. Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures 19 (2019): Online.
"Visualizing Digital Seriality, Or: All Your Mods Are Belong to Us!" Digital humanities/critical code studies/forensic visualization project, utilizing visualization programs Tableau, Palladio, Cytoscape, and other software tools to study exchanges of code and community-building in the videogame modding scene. Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy 22.1 (August 2017): Online.
"Don't Look Now: Paradoxes of Suture." Interactive video essay. [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies 3.4 (2017): Online.
"Sight and Sound Conspire: Monstrous Audio-Vision in James Whale's Frankenstein (1931)." Video essay, made at the NEH Workshop on Videographic Criticism, Middlebury College, 14-27 June 2015. Published in [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies 2.4 (2016): Online. [Also featured in Chiara Grizzafi, "Let Them Speak! Against Standardization in Videographic Criticism." [in]Transition 4.1 (2017): Online; and in Videographic Frankenstein. Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures 19 (2019): Online.]
"Scannable Images" (with Karin Denson). After.video. Eds. Oliver Lerone Schultz, Adnan Hadzi, and Pablo de Soto. Open Humanities Press, 2016. Online.
"Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century Film (Book Trailer)." Video essay/trailer for Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century Film. Eds. Shane Denson and Julia Leyda. Falmer: East Sussex: REFRAME Books, 2016. Online.
"Manifest Data: A Kit to Create Personal Digital Data-Based Sculptures" (co-authored with Amanda Starling Gould, Luke Caldwell, Libi Striegl, David Rambo, Max Symuleski, and Karin Denson). Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures 13 (2015): Online.
"VHS Found Footage and the Material Horrors of Post-Cinematic Images." Online video + text curation/discussion, as part of the Media Commons/In Media Res theme week on "Found Footage Video Aesthetics," 17-21 August 2015. Online.
"Object-Oriented Gaga: Theorizing the Nonhuman Mediation of Twenty-First Century Celebrity." O-Zone: A Journal of Object Oriented Studies. 10 June 2012. Online.
"Plurimediality and the Serial Figure" (with Ruth Mayer). Online video + text curation/discussion, as part of the Media Commons/In Media Res theme week on "Popular Seriality," 12-16 December 2011: Online.
Review of Joel Blackledge's video essay "Like There's No Tomorrow." [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies 9.2 (2022): Online.
"Towards a Historical Aesthetics of Encounter." Review of James J. Hodge, Sensations of History: Animation and New Media Art (Minneapolis: Univeristy of Minnesota Press, 2019). Critical Inquiry 47.4 (Summer 2021): 789-791. Online or PDF.
"Hyperdistractions." Article-length review of Dominic Pettman's Infinite Distraction: Paying Attention to Social Media. Los Angeles Review of Books, May 29, 2016: Online.
Review of Kevin L. Ferguson's video essay "Quantum Haunting." [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies 3.2 (2016): Online.
Review of Anthony Patrickson's video essay "Kataskopos: The Extraterrestrial View of the Earth in Film." [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies 3.1 (2016): Online.
"Seriality." Encyclopedia entry in The Bloomsbury Handbook to Literary and Cultural Theory. New York: Bloomsbury, 2018. 684-685. PDF.
"Open Peer-Review as Multimodal Scholarship." Contribution to "In Focus: Videographic Essays." Roundtable discussion on [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies, videographic criticism, and open peer-review. Christine Becker, ed. Cinema Journal 56.4 (August 2017). 141-143. PDF.