Sound technology and the American cinema : perception, representation, modernity /
Lastra, James.
Sound technology and the American cinema : perception, representation, modernity / James Lastra. - New York : Columbia University Press, c2000. - x, 270 pages ; 23 cm. - Film and culture series .
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.
9780231115179 (paper : alk. paper) 0231115172 (paper : alk. paper) 0231115164 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780231115162 (cloth : alk. paper)
99087737
Sound motion pictures--History.
Sound--Recording and reproducing--History.
Cine sonoro--Historia
Sonido --Grabación y reproducción
PN 1995.7 / L349s 2000
791.43/09
Sound technology and the American cinema : perception, representation, modernity / James Lastra. - New York : Columbia University Press, c2000. - x, 270 pages ; 23 cm. - Film and culture series .
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.
9780231115179 (paper : alk. paper) 0231115172 (paper : alk. paper) 0231115164 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780231115162 (cloth : alk. paper)
99087737
Sound motion pictures--History.
Sound--Recording and reproducing--History.
Cine sonoro--Historia
Sonido --Grabación y reproducción
PN 1995.7 / L349s 2000
791.43/09