TY - GEN T1 - Sound technology and the American cinema : perception, representation, modernity T2 - Film and culture. A1 - Lastra, James LA - English PP - New York PB - Columbia University Press YR - 2000 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm51311736 AB - 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. OP - 270 CN - PN1995.7 .L37 2000eb SN - 0231505469 SN - 9780231505468 SN - 0231115164 KW - Sound motion pictures : History. KW - Sound : Recording and reproducing : History. KW - Films sonores : Histoire. KW - Son : Enregistrement et reproduction : Histoire. KW - PERFORMING ARTS : Film & Video : Reference. KW - PERFORMING ARTS : Film & Video : History & Criticism. KW - Sound motion pictures KW - Sound : Recording and reproducing KW - Filmtechnik KW - Tonfilm KW - USA KW - History ER -