Technologies of seeing : photography, cinematography and television /

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Author / Creator:Winston, Brian.
Imprint:London : British Film Institute, 1996.
Description:viii, 143 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3663815
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ISBN:0851706010
0851706029 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p.119-137) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Necessities and Constraints - A Pattern of Technological Change
  • Ch. 1. The Case of the Cinema - The 'Invention' of the Cinema: Accelerators and Brakes
  • Ch. 2. The Case of Colour Film - White Skin and Colour Film: The Ideology of the Apparatus
  • Ch. 3. The Case of 16MM Film - From Home Movies to Cinema Verite: Looking for a Need
  • Ch. 4. The Case of HDTV - Lights, Camera, Inaction: Hollywood and Technology
  • Ch. 5. The Case of the Third Dimension - Where Is Holography?: Necessities and Constraints.