Representational technologies including photography, phonography, and the cinema have helped define modernity itself. Since the nineteenth century, these techno

his volume brings together a wide range of research on the ways in which technological innovations have established new and changing conditions for the experien

The first of its kind, this book traces the evolution of motion picture technology in its entirety. Beginning with Huygens' magic lantern and ending in the curr

Film Style and Technology is a history of film style and its relationship to film technology. It also includes a theory of film analysis and demonstrates this t

Through the analysis of examples that range from cutting-edge Hollywood blockbusters to viral films on the internet, and from Victorian cinema to the present, t