Inventing Cinema : Machines, Gestures, and Media History / Benoît Turquety, Timothy Barnard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Turquety, Benoît, author.

Contributor:

Barnard, Timothy, translator.

Series:

Cinema and Technology.

Cinema and Technology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Performing arts.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (269 pages).

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Amsterdam University Press, 2019.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2020: HSS Backlist Books

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 105803

ISBN:

9789048550463

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463724623

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access