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From Doors to Screens : Cinematic Incorporations of Technology.

De Gruyter SUNY Press Complete eBook-Package 2026 Available online

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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:
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Other Format:
Print version: Lewit, Ido From Doors to Screens
ISBN:
9798855806434
OCLC:
1581077366

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