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Sound Technology and the American Cinema: Perception, Representation, Modernity
James Lastra
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Paperback. Representational technologies including photography, phonography, and the cinema have helped define modernity itself. This text seeks to examine these technologies, arguing that they allow us to track the relations between capital, science, and cultural practice. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: ANH; APF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 392.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
Film and Culture Series
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231115179
SKU
V9780231115179
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About James Lastra
James Lastra is associate professor of English at the University of Chicago.
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