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Pepustakaan Pusat Kementerian Perhubungan Republik Indonesia

Title
INVENTING CINEMA : MACHINES, GESTURES AND MEDIA HISTORY
Collection Location
Perpustakaan Politeknik Keselamatan Transportasi Jalan Tegal
Edition
Call Number
778.53 TUR i
ISBN/ISSN
9789048550463
Author(s)
Turquety, Benoît
Subject(s)
Motion pictures
Motion pictures--Technique
Cinematography
Cinematography--Equipment and supplies
Digital cinematography
Classification
778.53
Series Title
GMD
Electronic Resource
Language
English
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Publishing Year
2019
Publishing Place
Amsterdam, Netherland
Collation
267 p.
Abstract/Notes
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 as archives of users’ gestures, as well as of modes of perception. The epistemology reconstructs the problems that the machines’ designers and users have strived to solve, and the network of concepts they have elaborated to understand these problems. Drawing on the philosophy of technology and anthropology, *Inventing Cinema* argues that networks of gestures, problems, perception and concepts are inscribed in vision machines, from the camera obscura to the stereoscope, the Cinématographe, and digital cinema. The invention of cinema is ultimately seen as an ongoing process irreducible to a single moment in history.
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