Inventing Cinema Machines, Gestures and Media History

With machines mediating most of our cultural practices, and innovations, obsolescence and revivals constantly transforming our relation with images and sounds, media feel more unstable than ever. But was there ever a 'stable' moment in media history? *Inventing Cinema* proposes to approach...

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Main Author: Turquety, Benoît (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam University Press 2019
Series:Cinema and Technology
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