This book approaches 21st-century globalized cinema through the new concept of the "neuro-image." Pisters begins with the premise that today's viewers no longer look through a character's eyes; instead, they move through his or her brain or mental landscape. Her book elaborates the threefold nature of the neuro-image by drawing on research from three domains?Deleuzian (schizoanalytic) philosophy, digital networked screen culture, and neuroscientific research?and is accordingly divided into three parts. The first reads

Patricia Pisters is Professor of Media Culture and Film Studies and Chair of the Department of Media Studies of the University of Amsterdam. Her publications include The Matrix of Visual Culture: Working with Deleuze in Film Theory (Stanford University Press, 2003), Shooting the Family: Transnational Media and Intercultural Values (ed. with Wim Staat, 2005) and Mind the Screen (ed. with Jaap Kooijman and Wanda Strauven, 2008).