Technologies of Seeing

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ISBN: 9780851706023 | 0851706029
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 1/1/1997

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This is a breakthrough in analysis of the ideological and aesthetic forces central to the historical development of film and television. The author refutes the argument that technological advance is merely the result of scientific process and demonstrates the ways in which social forces control media technology, and shape the agenda at every stage.

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Preface
Introduction: Necessities and Constraints - A Pattern of Technological Change	p. 1
The Case of the Cinema - The 'Invention' of the Cinema: Accelerators and Brakes	p. 10
The Case of Colour Film - White Skin and Colour Film: The Ideology of the Apparatus	p. 39
The Case of 16MM Film - From Home Movies to Cinema Verite: Looking for a Need	p. 58
The Case of HDTV - Lights, Camera, Inaction: Hollywood and Technology	p. 88
The Case of the Third Dimension - Where Is Holography?: Necessities and Constraints	p. 109
Notes	p. 119
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