1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996379043903316

Titolo

Technology and Film Scholarship : Experience, Study, Theory / / edited by Santiago Hidalgo ; foreword by Andre Gaudreault

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

90-485-2527-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 pages)

Collana

Film theory in media history

Disciplina

791

Soggetti

Performing Arts

Filmtheorie

Technology in motion pictures

Technology in motion pictures - History

History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: ; Section I Experience -- ; 1. When Did Cinema Become Cinema? Technology, History, and the Moving Pictures / Charles Musser -- ; 2. Exhibition Practices in Transition: Spectators, Audiences, and Projectors / Jan Olsson -- ; 3. Reel Changes: Post-mortem Cinephilia or the Resistance of Melancholia / Andre Habib -- ; 4. Walter Benjamin's Play Room: Where the Future So Eloquently Nests, or: What is Cinema Again? / Dana Cooley -- ; Section II Study -- ; 5. Hitchcock, Film Studies, and New Media: The Impact of Technology on the Analysis of Film / David Colangelo -- ; 6. Film Analysis and Statistics: A Field Report / Charles O'Brien -- ; 7. A `Distant Reading' of the `Chaser Theory': Local Views and the Digital Generation of New Cinema History / Paul Moore -- ; Section III Theory -- ; 8. Cine-Graphism: A New Approach to the Evolution of Film Language through Technology / Tom Gunning -- ; 9. Can We Have the Cave and Leave It Too? On the Meaning of Cinema as Technology / Vinzenz Hediger -- ; 10. On Viewfinders, Video Assist Systems, and Tape Splicers: Questioning the History of Techniques and Technology



in Cinema / Benoit Turquety.

Sommario/riassunto

"This volume brings together a wide range of research on the ways in which technological innovations have established new and changing conditions for the experience, study and theorization of film. Drawn from the IMPACT film conference (The Impact of Technological Innovations on the Historiography and Theory of Cinema) held in Montreal in 2011, the book includes contributions from such leading figures in the field as Tom Gunning, Charles Musser, Jan Olsson and Vinzenz Hediger."--Publisher website

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996217061403316

Autore

Milbank John

Titolo

Theology and social theory [[electronic resource] ] : beyond secular reason / / John Milbank

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, UK ; ; Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2006

ISBN

1-281-30846-3

9786611308469

0-470-69412-2

0-470-69331-2

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (482 p.)

Disciplina

210

261.5

Soggetti

Christianity and the social sciences - History of doctrines

Christian sociology

Theology - Methodology

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

Political theology and the new science of politics -- Political economy as theodicy and agnostics -- Sociology I : from Malebranche to Durkheim -- Sociology II : from Kant to Weber -- Policing the sublime : a critique of the sociology of religion -- For and against Hegel -- For and against Marx -- Founding the supernatural : political and liberation theology in the context of modern Catholic thought -- Science, power,



and reality -- Ontological violence or the postmodern problematic -- Difference of virtue, virtue of difference -- The other city : theology as a social science.

Sommario/riassunto

This is a revised edition of John Milbank's masterpiece, which sketches the outline of a specifically theological social theory.:.; The Times Higher Education Supplement wrote of the first edition that it was "a tour de force of systematic theology. It would be churlish not to acknowledge its provocation and brilliance".; Brings this classic work up-to-date by reviewing the development of modern social thought.; Features a substantial new introduction by Milbank, clarifying the theoretical basis for his work.; Challenges the notion that sociological critiques of theology are 'scientific'.; Out