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...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press
©2000.
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| Series: | Film and culture.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/last11516 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction, Discourse/Device/Practice/Institution: Representational Technologies and American Culture; 1. Inscriptions and Simulations: The Imagination of Technology; 2. Performance, Inscription, Diegesis: The Technological Transformation of a Representational Causality; 3. Everything But the Kitchen Sync: Sound and Image Before the Talkies; 4. Sound Theory; 5. Standards and Practices: Aesthetic Norm and Technological Innovation in the American Cinema; 6. Sound Space and Classical Narrative; Conclusion; Notes; Index.