Inventing Cinema: Machines, Gestures and Media History (1) (Cinema and Technology)

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Synopsis
With machines mediating most of our cultural practices, and innovations, obsolescence and revivals constantly transforming our relation with images and sounds, media feel more unstable than ever. But was there ever a 'stable' moment in media history? Inventing Cinema proposes to approach this question through an archaeology and epistemology of media machines. The archaeology analyses them as archives of users' gestures, as well as of modes of perception. The epistemology reconstructs the problems that the machines' designers and users have strived to solve, and the network of concepts they have elaborated to understand these problems. Drawing on the philosophy of technology and anthropology, Inventing Cinema argues that networks of gestures, problems, perception and concepts are inscribed in vision machines, from the camera obscura to the stereoscope, the Cinématographe, and digital cinema. The invention of cinema is ultimately seen as an ongoing process irreducible to a single moment in history.
Copyright:
2019

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
268 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781040798713
Related ISBNs:
9781003698111, 9789463724623, 9781041181491, 9781040792926
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
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Copyrighted By:
B. Turquety / Taylor & Francis Group
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Technology
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Bookshare Staff
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