Cinema, trance and cybernetics / Ute Holl ; translation: Daniel Hendrickson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holl, Ute, author.

Contributor:

Hendrickson, Daniel, 1963- translator.

Series:

Recursions.

Recursions

Standardized Title:

Kino, Trance & Kybernetik. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Psychological aspects.

Motion pictures--Aesthetics.

Physical Description:

326 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017]

Summary:

We've all had the experience of watching a film and feeling like we've been in a trance. This book takes that experience seriously, explaining cinema as a cultural technique of trance, one that unconsciously transforms our perceptions. Ute Holl moves from anthropological and experimental cinema through nineteenth-century psychological laboratories, which she shows developed techniques for testing, measuring, and classifying the mind that can be seen as a prehistory of cinema, one that allows us to see the links among cinema, anthropology, psychology, and cybernetics.

Contents:

Part I

1 Cinema 23

2 Cybernetics 33

3 Knots 39

4 To Whom it May Concern 47

Part II

1 Discretions 57

2 Depersonalizations 77

3 Deviations 117

4 Compressions 137

Part III

1 Mental Apparatuses 161

2 Psycho-Motor Activity 187

3 Psycho-Drama 197

4 Psycho-Technology 205

5 Psycho-Reflexology 219

Part IV

1 The Truth Won by Means of Film 249

Part V

1 After All: Return to Receiver 281.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Related Work:

Translation of: Holl, Ute. Kino, Trance & Kybernetik.

ISBN:

9789089646682

908964668X

OCLC:

974986150