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From Doors to Screens : Cinematic Incorporations of Technology.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lewit, Ido.
- Series:
- SUNY Series, Horizons of Cinema Series
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (276 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- Reveals how objects and technologies function as discursive agents in film, with formal, narrative, and argumentative consequences.From Doors to Screens treats filmic representations of non-filmic technologies as potentially meaningful intermedial encounters, wherein the objects and media represented interact with the basic characteristics of.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Technological Intermediality and the Moving Image
- 1 Doors
- A Director of Doors
- The Cultural Techniques of Transgression
- The Threshold: Emergent Illusionistic Cinematic Space in When I Was Dead
- The Keyhole: Constructing Film Spectatorship in The Oyster Princess
- "The Door Speaks": The Private and the Public in The Love Parade and The Merry Widow
- A Door's Revolution: Ninotchka
- 2 Clocks and Watches
- Filmed Clocks
- Clockwork Cinema
- Clocks and Watches in Fritz Lang's German Films
- Premodern Times: Destiny and the Village Clock
- A Picture of the Time: Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler and the Pocket Watch
- Media Hybrids and Monstrous Desires: M
- Synchronism and Terror: The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
- 3 Gramophones
- Fritz Lang's Gramophones
- Acoustic Desire Machines: Spies
- Broadcast Subjectivity: The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
- Phonographic Libido: Liliom
- Werner Herzog's Gramophones
- Residues of Noise as Cinematic Vision: Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
- Mozart on the Gramophone: The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
- The Phonograph and the American Dream: Stroszek
- Recorded Opera and the 1900 Mediascape: Fitzcarraldo
- 4 Video
- Lumière and the Company of Mutual Media Violation
- Benny's Funny Video Games: Acts of Killing in Hyperreality
- Hidden Allegories of Loss: The Digital Turn and the End of Film
- Unhappy Endings: Ubiquitous Telepresence vs. Archivable Past
- Afterword
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Lewit, Ido From Doors to Screens
- ISBN:
- 9798855806434
- OCLC:
- 1581077366
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