Cinema, Trance And Cybernetics (recurssions: Theories Of Media, Materiality, And Cultural Techniques)
by Ute Holl /
2017 / English / PDF
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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 of 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.
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 of 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.
