From Doors to Screens

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Cinematic Incorporations of Technology

Ido Lewit (Tel Aviv University)

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English

State University of New York Press
01 April 2026

Film theory & criticism; Film & movie: styles & genres; Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism; Media studies

Series: SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema

Reveals how objects and technologies function as discursive agents in film, with formal, narrative, and argumentative consequences.

From Doors to Screens treats filmic representations of non-filmic technologies as potentially meaningful intermedial encounters, wherein the objects and media represented interact with the basic characteristics of film in ways that affect cinematic expression, meaning-making, and argumentation. Focusing on doors, clocks, gramophones, and video screens in films by Ernst Lubitsch, Fritz Lang, Werner Herzog, Michael Haneke, and others, the book reveals how these objects and technologies function as discursive agents, with formal, narrative, and argumentative consequences. Applying media theory to film analysis, the book proposes a novel methodology for the close reading of films, offering an alternative to more common symbolic and metaphorical interpretations.

By: Ido Lewit (Tel Aviv University)
Imprint: State University of New York Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 513g
ISBN: 9798855806403
Series: SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema
Pages: 274
Publication Date: 01 April 2026
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Technological Intermediality and the Moving Image 1. Doors 2. Clocks and Watches 3. Gramophones 4. Video Afterword Notes Works Cited Index

Ido Lewit is Assistant Professor at the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television, Tel-Aviv University. He is the coeditor, with Shai Biderman, of Mediamorphosis: Kafka and the Moving Image and, with Brigitte Peucker, of New Approaches to Ernst Lubitsch: A Light Touch.