Inventing Cinema : Machines, Gestures and Media History /
Turquety, Benoît,
Inventing Cinema : Machines, Gestures and Media History / Benoît Turquety ; translated by Timothy Barnard. - 1 online resource (278 pages). - Cinema and technology ; 1 . - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Problems of Digital Cinema; 1. The Why and How of Machines; 2. Invention, Innovation, History; 3. The Invention of the Problem; 4. The Invention of the Cinematographe; 5. 'Natural Colour Kinematography', a New Cinema Invention: Kinemacolor, Technical Network and Commercial Policies; 6. Epilogue; Bibliography; Index
Open Access
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 Cinematographe, and digital cinema. The invention of cinema is ultimately seen as an ongoing process irreducible to a single moment in history.
Translated from French.
9789048550463
Cinema numerique.
Cinema--Technique--Histoire.
Cinema--Appareils et materiel--Histoire.
Motion pictures.
Cinematography--Equipment and supplies.
Cinematography.
Motion pictures--Technique.
PERFORMING ARTS--Film & Video--History & Criticism.
Cinema--Appareils et materiel.
Cinema--Histoire.
Motion pictures--History.
Motion pictures--Technique.
Cinematography--Equipment and supplies.
Cinematography--History.
History.
Electronic books.
Inventing Cinema : Machines, Gestures and Media History / Benoît Turquety ; translated by Timothy Barnard. - 1 online resource (278 pages). - Cinema and technology ; 1 . - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Problems of Digital Cinema; 1. The Why and How of Machines; 2. Invention, Innovation, History; 3. The Invention of the Problem; 4. The Invention of the Cinematographe; 5. 'Natural Colour Kinematography', a New Cinema Invention: Kinemacolor, Technical Network and Commercial Policies; 6. Epilogue; Bibliography; Index
Open Access
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 Cinematographe, and digital cinema. The invention of cinema is ultimately seen as an ongoing process irreducible to a single moment in history.
Translated from French.
9789048550463
Cinema numerique.
Cinema--Technique--Histoire.
Cinema--Appareils et materiel--Histoire.
Motion pictures.
Cinematography--Equipment and supplies.
Cinematography.
Motion pictures--Technique.
PERFORMING ARTS--Film & Video--History & Criticism.
Cinema--Appareils et materiel.
Cinema--Histoire.
Motion pictures--History.
Motion pictures--Technique.
Cinematography--Equipment and supplies.
Cinematography--History.
History.
Electronic books.