Cinema, Trance and Cybernetics
Author | : Ute Holl |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2017-03-15 |
ISBN-10 | : 908964668X |
ISBN-13 | : 9789089646682 |
Rating | : 4/5 (8X Downloads) |
Download or read book Cinema, Trance and Cybernetics written by Ute Holl and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 technique 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."