1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783817003321

Autore

Chanan Michael

Titolo

The dream that kicks [[electronic resource] ] : the prehistory and early years of cinema in Britain / / Michael Chanan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1996

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Disciplina

791.430941

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Great Britain - History

Cinematography - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Author's note (first edition); Preface to the second edition; Acknowledgements; The site of film; The sight of film; The conditions of invention; Theories of perception; Photographic development; Patent business; Celluloid muse; The production of consumption; Music hall and popular culture; Culture and politics in the middle classes; Market competition and industrial growth; The foundations of the film idiom; Epilogue: The dream that kicks; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Dream the Kicks is a classic account of the prehistory and early years of cinema in Britain. In this new paperback edition, which has been thoroughly revised to take into account recent scholarship of early cinema, Michael Chanan provides a fasciniating account of the rich and hitherto hidden history of the origins of film. Chanan demonstrates that the theory of `the persistence of vision', which led to the invention of moving pictures, has been superceded by modern scientific findings. In its place, he puts forward a theory of invention as a type of bricolage, and sh



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791940003321

Titolo

The social construction of technological systems [[electronic resource] ] : new directions in the sociology and history of technology / / edited by Wiebe E. Bijker, Thomas P. Hughes, and Trevor Pinch ; foreword by Deborah G. Douglas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2012

ISBN

0-262-30087-7

1-280-67837-2

9786613655301

0-262-30162-8

Edizione

[Anniversary ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (470 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BijkerWiebe E

HughesThomas Parke

PinchT. J (Trevor J.)

DouglasDeborah G

Disciplina

303.48/3

Soggetti

Technology - Sociological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Preface to the Anniversary Edition; Acknowledgments; General Introduction; I Common Themes in Sociological and Historical Studies of Technology; Introduction; The Social Construction of Facts and Artifacts; The Evolution of Large Technological Systems; Society in the Making: The Study of Technology as a Tool for Sociological Analysis; II Simplifying the Complexity; Introduction; Technology and Heterogeneous Engineering: The Case of Portuguese Expansion; The Nelson-Winter-Dosi Model and Synthetic Dye Chemistry

The Social Construction of Bakelite: Toward a Theory of InventionIII Strategic Research Sites; Introduction; Missile Accuracy: A Case Study in the Social Processes of Technological Change; The Social Locus of Technological Practice: Community, System, or Organization?; Regulatory Science and the Social Management of Trust in Medicine; The Consumption Junction: A Proposal for Research Strategies in the



Sociology of Technology; Seeing with Sound: A Study of the Development of Medical Images; IV Technology and Beyond; Introduction

Reconstructing Man and Machine: A Note on Sociological Critiques of CognitivismExpert Systems and the Science of Knowledge; References; Contributors; Name Index; Subject Index