| Cinema, Trance and Cybernetics Contributor(s): Holl, Ute (Author), Herbach & Haase Literarische Agentur (Other) |
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ISBN: 908964668X ISBN-13: 9789089646682 Publisher: Amsterdam University Press OUR PRICE: $153.45 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism |
| Series: Recursions |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.4" W x 9.5" (1.45 lbs) 352 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Holl, Ute: - Ute Holl is professor of media studies at the University of Basel. |
