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Record Nr.

UNISA996543170303316

Autore

Oever Annie

Titolo

Technè/Technology : Researching Cinema and Media Technologies, their Development, Use and Impact / / Annie Oever

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

90-485-1990-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (413 p.)

Collana

The Key Debates: Mutations and Appropriations in European Film Studies ; ; 4

Soggetti

Cinematography - Technological innovations

Motion pictures - Technological innovations

Technology in motion pictures

PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Editorial -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Researching Cinema and Media Technologies -- PART I Philosophy of Technology: Reassessing Key Questions -- The Philosophy of Technology in the Frame of Film Theory: Walter Benjamin’s Contribution -- Toward an Archaeology of the Cinema/ Technology Relation: From Mechanization to “Digital Cinema” -- Technē and Poiēsis: On Heidegger and Film Theory -- Stiegler’s Post-Phenomenological Account of Mediated Experience -- What Are Media? -- PART II Cinema and Media Technologies: Hardware, Software, Wetware -- The “History of Vision”-Debate Revisited -- Will the 3D Revolution Happen? A Brief Perspective on the Long History of Stereoscopy (with special thanks to Eisenstein and Bazin) -- Television’s Many Technologies: Domesticity, Governmentality, Genealogy -- Postmodern Hi-fi vs. Post-Cool Lo-fi: An Epistemological War -- PART III Cinema and Media Technologies: A Historical Context -- Marey’s Gun: Apparatuses of Capture and the Operational Image -- Re-editing as Psychotechnique: Montage and Mediality in Early Soviet Cinema -- Technophobia and Italian Film Theory in the Interwar Period -- Jean-Luc Godard’s Histoire(s) du Cinéma: Cogito Ergo Video --



Performativity/Expressivity: The Mobile Micro Screen and Its Subject -- PART IV Discussions: Revisiting the Past -- Rethinking the Materiality of Technical Media: Friedrich Kittler, Enfant Terrible with a Rejuvenating Effect on Parental Discipline – A Dialogue -- Revisiting Christian Metz’s “Apparatus Theory” – A Dialogue -- PART V Envisioning the Future -- The Future History of a Vanishing Medium -- Experimental Media Archaeology: A Plea for New Directions -- Notes -- General Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index of Names -- Index of Film Titles -- Index of Subject

Sommario/riassunto

Technè/Technology is the up-to-date critical volume on the theories, philosophies, and debates on technology and their productivity for the fi elds of fi lm and media studies. Comprehensive as well as innovative, it is not organized around a single thesis — except the assertion that technique is a major concern for fi lm and media scholars, whether this is approached in terms of philosophy, techno-aesthetics, semiotics, apparatus theory, (new) fi lm history, media archaeology, the industry or the sensory/cognitive experience.