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Sound technology and the American cinema : perception, representation, modernity / James Lastra.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Film and culture seriesPublication details: New York : Columbia University Press, c2000.Description: x, 270 pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780231115179 (paper : alk. paper)
  • 0231115172 (paper : alk. paper)
  • 0231115164 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780231115162 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43/09
LOC classification:
  • PN 1995.7 L349s 2000
Contents:
1. Inscriptions and Simulations: The Imagination of Technology 2. Performance, Inscription, Diegesis: The Technological Transformation of 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
Summary: Representational technologies including photography, phonography, and the cinema have helped define modernity itself. James Lastra argues that these technologies allow us to track the links between capital, science, and cultural practices.
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) PN 1995.7 L349s 2000 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000120680

Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-263) and index.

1. Inscriptions and Simulations: The Imagination of Technology 2. Performance, Inscription, Diegesis: The Technological Transformation of 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

Representational technologies including photography, phonography, and the cinema have helped define modernity itself. James Lastra argues that these technologies allow us to track the links between capital, science, and cultural practices.

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