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. . 2000. 0th Edition. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Sound Technology and the American Cinema: Perception, Representation, Modernity
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication Date: 2000
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0231115172
ISBN 13: 9780231115179
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New

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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.

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

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