TY  - BOOK
AU  - Turquety, Benoît
AB  - 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 this question through an archaeology and epistemology of media machines. The archaeology analyses them as archives of users’ gestures, as well as of modes of perception. The epistemology reconstructs the problems that the machines’ designers and users have strived to solve, and the network of concepts they have elaborated to understand these problems. Drawing on the philosophy of technology and anthropology, *Inventing Cinema* argues that networks of gestures, problems, perception and concepts are inscribed in vision machines, from the camera obscura to the stereoscope, the Cinématographe, and digital cinema. The invention of cinema is ultimately seen as an ongoing process irreducible to a single moment in history.
DO  - 10.5117/9789463724623
ID  - OAPEN ID: ONIX_20210713_9789048550463_7
ID  - OAPEN ID: https://openresearchlibrary.org/viewer/66059240-53df-4e89-a1d4-3302888f0fed
KW  - Film technology, media history, digital cinema, early cinema, media archaeology
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/a6f4dc0c-a3b1-4d58-a4e2-2f93ce3a0e49/9789048550463.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/49984
PB  - Amsterdam University Press
PY  - 2019
SN  - 9789048550463
TI  - Inventing Cinema : Machines, Gestures and Media History
ER  - 
