Cover Image

Inventing cinema : machines, gestures and media history /

With machines mediating most of our cultural practices, and innovations, obsolescence and revivals constantly transforming our relation with images and sounds, media feel more unstable than ever. But was there ever a "stable" moment in media history? Inventing Cinema proposes to approach t...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Turquety, Benoît (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:Translated from French.
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]
Series:Cinema and technology (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 1.
Subjects:
Cinematography > History.
Cinematography > Equipment and supplies.
Motion pictures > Technique.
Motion pictures > History.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
Cinematography.
Motion pictures.
Cinéma > Appareils et matériel > Histoire.
Cinéma > Technique > Histoire.
Cinéma numérique.
Electronic books.
History.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Problems of Digital Cinema; 1. The Why and How of Machines; 2. Invention, Innovation, History; 3. The Invention of the Problem; 4. The Invention of the Cinématographe; 5. 'Natural Colour Kinematography', a New Cinema Invention: Kinemacolor, Technical Network and Commercial Policies; 6. Epilogue; Bibliography; Index