Sound Technology and the American Cinema

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Perception, Representation, Modernity

James Lastra

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English

Columbia University Press
18 July 2000

Theatre: technical & background skills; Films, movies & cinema; Cultural studies

Series: Film and Culture Series

Representational technologies including photography, phonography, and the cinema have helped define modernity itself. Since the nineteenth century, these technologies have challenged our trust of sensory perception, given the ephemeral unprecedented parity with the eternal, and created profound temporal and spatial displacements. But current approaches to representational and cultural history often neglect to examine these technologies. James Lastra seeks to remedy this neglect.

Lastra argues that we are nowhere better able to track the relations between capital, science, and cultural practice than in photography, phonography, and the cinema. In particular, he maps the development of sound recording from its emergence to its confrontation with and integration into the Hollywood film.

Reaching back into the late eighteenth century, to natural philosophy, stenography, automata, and human physiology, Lastra follows the shifting relationships between our senses, technology, and representation.

By: James Lastra
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 150mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 397g
ISBN: 9780231115179
ISBN 10: 0231115172
Series: Film and Culture Series
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 18 July 2000
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

James Lastra is associate professor of English at the University of Chicago.

Reviews for Sound Technology and the American Cinema: Perception, Representation, Modernity

An interesting scholarly account of the rise of early film sound technologies... fascinating in its discussion of how sound practice, particularly in the accounts of film sound engineers, complicates and grounds sound theory. -- Review of Communication An interesting scholarly account of the rise of early film sound technologies... fascinating in its discussion of how sound practice, particularly in the accounts of film sound engineers, complicates and grounds sound theory. -- Review of Communication An interesting scholarly account of the rise of early film sound technologies... fascinating in its discussion of how sound practice, particularly in the accounts of film sound engineers, complicates and grounds sound theory. -- Review of Communication