The contributors to this probing and various essay collection explore how optical toys reveal the limits of our sense perceptions, while new techniques of representation continue to augment what we see and how we see it. Yet, as the editors of Screens and Illusionism are keen to emphasise, the effects of new media are not all ominous, but the delightful fruits of human ingenuity, playfulness, and an unimpeachable pursuit of pleasure. This rich collection enhances our ways of seeing; it places within the readers grasp powerful new instruments of understanding and perception. * Marina Warner, author of Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media * The film screen has been neglected for decades by film theorists. After all, doesnt the screen seem to disappear when a movie begins? In this unique and important anthology scholars from a range of backgrounds probe not only the screen, but the conditions of illusion in cinema, uncovering its links to the uncanny. * Tom Gunning, Professor Emeritus University of Chicago * The contributors to this probing and various essay collection explore how optical toys reveal the limits of our sense perceptions, while new techniques of representation continue to augment what we see and how we see it. Yet, as the editors of Screens and Illusionism are keen to emphasise, the effects of new media are not all ominous, but the delightful fruits of human ingenuity, playfulness, and an unimpeachable pursuit of pleasure. This rich collection enhances our ways of seeing; it places within the readers grasp powerful new instruments of understanding and perception. * Marina Warner, author of Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media * The film screen has been neglected for decades by film theorists. After all, doesnt the screen seem to disappear when a movie begins? In this unique and important anthology scholars from a range of backgrounds probe not only the screen, but the conditions of illusion in cinema, uncovering its links to the uncanny. * Tom Gunning, Professor Emeritus University of Chicago *