For a recent review in Alphaville: Journal of film and Screen Media, Malte Hagener discusses Screening Fears: On Protective Mediaby Francesco Casetti. Click here to learn more about the book. Click here to read the full review. An excerpt appears below:

“Through three case studies—the phantasmagoria of the nineteenth century, the cinema of the twentieth century and digital media of the twenty-first century—Casetti stresses the tendency inherent in media to allow people to withdraw from the world and then provide them with a screen that facilitates protected and partial access… Screening Fears demonstrates the ongoing productivity of media history to understand our digital present, not characterised by relentless novelty and permanent disruption, as the tycoons of the digital age want us to believe, but rather by continuity and transformation.”