Sound technology and the American cinema : perception, representation, modernity
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
History
x, 270 pages ; 23 cm.
9780231115162, 9780231115179, 0231115164, 0231115172
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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