Table of Contents
"Twenty-five heads under one hat": quick-change in the 1890s / Matthew Solomon -- Animation and animorphs: a brief disappearing act / Norman M. Klein -- Magical transformations: morphing and metamorphosis in two cultures / Louise Krasniewicz -- From mutation to morphing: cultural transformations from Greek myth to children's media culture / Marsha Kinder -- A brief history of morphing / Mark J.P. Wolf -- Tracing the Tesseract: a conceptual prehistory of the morph / Kevin Fisher -- "At the still point of the turning world": meta-morphing and meta-stasis / Vivian Sobchack -- After Arnold: narratives of the posthuman cinema / Roger Warren Beebe -- Morphing Saint Sebastian: masochism and masculinity in Forrest Gump / Joseba Gabilondo -- Beyond the body: Orlan and the material morph / Victoria Duckett -- Taking shape: morphing and the performance of self / Scott Bukatman -- Special effects, morphing magic, and the 1990s cinema of attractions / Angela Ndalianis.