Sound Technology & the American Cinema - Perception, Representation, Modernity

Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-231-11517-9
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 363 g

Reihe: Film and Culture Series

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 to its confrontation with and integration into the Hollywood film.

Reaching back into the late eighteenth century, to natural philosophy, stenography, automata, and human physiology, Lastra follows the shifting relationships between our senses, technology, and representation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lastra, James

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theater: Technik, Bühnentechnik, Einrichtung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Inscriptions and Simulations: The Imagination of Technology2. Performance, Inscription, Diegesis: The Technological Transformation of Representational Causality3. Everything But the Kitchen Sync: Sound and Image Before the Talkies4. Sound Theory5. Standards and Practices: Aesthetic Norm and Technological Innovation in the American Cinema6. Sound Space and Classical Narrative

Über Autor(innen)

James Lastra is associate professor of English at the University of Chicago.