Table of Contents
Introduction: Defining the Subject 1
I Face and Mask: Changing Views
1 Facial Expression, Masks of the Self, and Roles of the Face 17
2 The Cult Origin of the Mask 32
3 Masks in Colonial Museums 42
4 Face and Mask in the Theater 48
5 From the Study of the Face to Brain Research 63
6 Nostalgia for the Face and the Death Mask in Modernity 77
7 Eulogy for the Face: Rilke and Artaud 84
II Portrait and Mask: The Face as Representation
8 The European Portrait as Mask 91
9 Face and Skull: Two Opposing Views 106
10 The “Real Face” of the Icon and the “Similar Face” 118
11 The Record of Memory and the Speech Act of the Face 126
12 Rembrandt’s Self-Portraiture: Revolt against the Mask 135
13 Silent Screams in the Glass Case: The Face Set Free 150
14 Photography and Mask: Jorge Molder’s Own Alien Face 157
III Media and Masks: The Production of Faces
15 The Consumption of Media Faces 175
16 Archives: Controlling the Faces of the Crowd 192
17 Video and Live Image: The Flight from the Mask 205
18 Ingmar Bergman and the Face in Film 211
19 Overpainting and Replicating the Face: Signs of Crisis 221
20 Mao’s Face: State Icon and Pop Idol 229
21 Cyberfaces: Masks without Faces 239
Acknowledgments 247
Notes 249
Literature Cited 263
Index of Names 267