Inventing Cinema : Machines, Gestures and Media History /

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 t...

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Main Author: Turquety, Benoît (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
French
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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