Sound Technology and the American Cinema

Perception, Representation, Modernity (livre en anglais)

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de James Lastra

Type

Etudes

Sujet

Technique > Son

Mots Clés

son, histoire du cinéma, technologie

Année d'édition

2000

Editeur

Columbia University Press

Collection

Film and Culture

Langue

anglais

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Format

Broché • 288 pages
16 x 23,5 cm

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ISBN-13

0-231-11517-2
978-0-231-11517-9

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Description de l'ouvrage :
Representational technologies including photography, phonography, and the cinema have helped define modernity itself. Since the nineteenth century, these technologies have challenged our trust of sensory perception, given the ephemeral unprecedented parity with the eternal, and created profound temporal and spatial displacements. But current approaches to representational and cultural history often neglect to examine these technologies. James Lastra seeks to remedy this neglect.

Lastra argues that we are nowhere better able to track the relations between capital, science, and cultural practice than in photography, phonography, and the cinema. In particular, he maps the development of sound recording from its emergence to its confrontation with and integration into the Hollywood film.

Reaching back into the late eighteenth century, to natural philosophy, stenography, automata, and human physiology, Lastra follows the shifting relationships between our senses, technology, and representation.

À propos de l'auteur :
James Lastra is associate professor of English at the University of Chicago.

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