Sound technology and the American cinema
Subtitle: perception, representation, modernity
By: James Lastra.
Series: Film and culture
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: Sound motion pictures -- History; Sound -- Recording and reproducing -- History
Description: Representational technologies including photography, phonography, and the cinema have helped define modernity itself. James Lastra argues that these technologies allow us to track the links between capital, science, and cultural practices.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-263) and index.