For a recent review in The Brooklyn Rail, Ewan Wallace discusses Screening Fears: On Protective Media by Francesco Casetti. Click here to learn more about the book. Click here to read the full review. An excerpt appears below:

“Writings on motion pictures usually emphasize the visual, or how the visual stuff gets into your eyes. If not films then movie stars, projection technology, distribution systems. But for Francesco Casetti, we fundamentally misunderstand what movies are (indeed the book presents something like an ontology, not just of cinema, but of screen media as a whole) if we fail to account for the mechanisms that shelter them from the world at large.”