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Sound technology and the American cinema : perception, representation, modernity /
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 temp...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Publication officielle Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
©2000.
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| Collection: | Film and culture.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | 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 cultu. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (x, 270 pages) |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-263) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0231505469 9780231505468 |