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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 this question through an archaeology and epistemology of media machines. The archaeology analyses them…
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- 9789048550463
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- 267 p.
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- Cinema and Technology,
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- 778.53 TUR i
Medium, format, configuration : the displacements of film
In contrast with media constructed as vast, ontologically homogeneous, non-localized systems, formats show material networks of interoperability and exclusions, inscribed in local specificities, and involving precise conditions for the circulation of images and sounds. Formats, institutionalized as standards, frame the “technical networks” defined by Gilbert Simondon, that unfold technical …
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- 9783957960047
- Collation
- 54 p.
- Series Title
- Configurations of Film
- Call Number
- 791.43079 TUR m
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