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Inventing cinema : machines, gestures and media history
- Title
- Inventing cinema : machines, gestures and media history / Benoît Turquety ; translated [from French] by Timothy Barnard.
- Author
- Turquety, Benoît
- Publication
- Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]
- ©2019
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Barnard, Timothy
- Description
- 267 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- 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 an 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.
- Series Statement
- Cinema and technology
- Uniform Title
- Inventer le cinéma. English
- Cinema and technology.
- Alternative Title
- Inventer le cinéma.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-263) and index.
- Language (note)
- Translated from French.
- Call Number
- MFL 20-997
- ISBN
- 9789463724623
- 9463724621
- LCCN
- 9789463724623
- OCLC
- 1112895480
- Author
- Turquety, Benoît, author.
- Title
- Inventing cinema : machines, gestures and media history / Benoît Turquety ; translated [from French] by Timothy Barnard.
- Publisher
- Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Cinema and technologyCinema and technology.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-263) and index.
- Language
- Translated from French.
- Added Author
- Barnard, Timothy, translator.Translation of: Turquety, Benoît. Inventer le cinéma.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9789463724623
- Research Call Number
- MFL 20-997