perception, representation, modernity Lastra, James. creator text bibliography nyu New York Columbia University Press c2000 2000 monographic eng

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x, 270 pages ; 23 cm. 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. 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 James Lastra. Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-263) and index. Sound motion pictures History Sound Recording and reproducing History Cine sonoro Historia Sonido Grabación y reproducción PN 1995.7 L349s 2000 791.43/09 9780231115179 (paper : alk. paper) 0231115172 (paper : alk. paper) 0231115164 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780231115162 (cloth : alk. paper) 99087737 DLC 991213 20240208152052.0 11867460 eng