Disfigured Faces, “Accursed Ugliness”, and Hollywood
Paddy Adamson on Hollywood's obsession with disfigured faces, and the negative impact such representations have on understandings of disfigurement.
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‘Like Changing a Windshield on a Car’ – Transplantation and The Eye (2008)
This piece on transplantation and The Eye (2008) is the second blog in our series on Halloween, Horror Films, transplantation and the face. In this installment, Lauren Stephenson (York St John) explores the tensions between science and the body, and matters of the soul and the self.
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Silence, surgery and strangeness: face transplant and the film Eyes without a Face/Les yeux sans visage (1960)
Written by Sara Wasson, this blog explores the 1960 French-language horror film Les yeux sans visage or Eyes Without a Face
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Transplantation narratives on screen: a Halloween blog series
This October, we're countering the casual exploitation of horror narratives around appearance and the limits of the body, reflecting on transplantation narratives on film with a guest blog series.
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Artificial Intelligence and Facial Discrimination
CEO of Face Equality International, Phyllida Swift, explains the relationship between artificial intelligence and facial discrimination
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Regulating facial recognition and other biometric technologies
This blog on regulating facial recognition is the third installment of our series on facial recognition. Don’t miss our first...
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Facial Recognition: From Face Blindness to Super Recognisers
This blog is part of our series on facial recognition. Check out our first blog on this theme, by AboutFace...
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Facial recognition technology, history and the meanings of the face
This blog by Fay Bound Alberti was originally published on 17 February 2020 by Foundation for Science and Technology. Facial...
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The making of a blueprint. How historical, qualitative research should inform face transplant policy and practice.
The making of a blueprint. How historical, qualitative research should inform face transplant policy and practice. In December 2021, the...
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Before and After? What the humanities bring to medical images
While before-and-after photographs serve an important medical function in recording a physical journey, our research goes behind these images to understand patients’ journeys, including the emotional and physical journey they go through.