Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Holl, Ute
• Hendrickson, Daniel[Übersetzer]

Titel

Cinema, trance and cybernetics

Ist Teil von

• Recursions: theories of media, materiality, and cultural techniques

Ort / Verlag

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Link zum Volltext

• JSTOR - Open Access E-Books (ZDB-39-JOA)

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-320) and index. - Translated from the German
• 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 techniques for 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