Cinema, Trance and Cybernetics (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789089646682)

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 techniques for 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. Ute Holl moves from anthropological and experimental cinema through nineteenth-century psychological laboratories, which she shows developed techniques for testing, measuring, and classifying the mind that can be seen as a prehistory of cinema.

Author: Ute Holl
ISBN-10: 908964668X
ISBN-13: 9789089646682
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 04/06/2017
Pages: 326
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.40w x 1.00d