Cinema, trance and cybernetics

Autori

• Ute Holl

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• 352 pagine
• 13 ore di lettura

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• Libri di testo universitari

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We ve all had the experience of watching a film and feeling like we ve been in a trance. This book takes that experience seriously, explaining cinema as a cultural technique of trance, one that unconsciously transforms our perceptions. Ute Holl moves from anthropological and experimental cinema through nineteenth-century psychological laboratories, which she shows developed technique of testing, measuring, and classifying the mind that can be seen as a prehistory of cinema, one that allows us to see the links among cinema, anthropology, psychology, and cybernetics."

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2017