This volume brings together a wide range of explorations of the ways in which technological innovations have established new and changing conditions for the experience and study of film. The book offers analyses by such leading figures in film studies as Tom Gunning and Charles Musser, who examine the ways in which technological changes have altered the ways how cinema is conceived and how it is approached as an object of study. Contributors also look at the overlapping stages through which new experience is translated in institutionalized knowledge within the discipline.
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| Introduction The Discursive Spaces Between a History of Film Technology and Technological Experience |
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1 When Did Cinema Become Cinema? Technology, History, and the Moving Pictures |
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2 Exhibition Practices in Transition: Spectators, Audiences, and Projectors |
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3 Reel Changes: Post-mortem Cinephilia or the Resistance of Melancholia |
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4 Walter Benjamin's Play Room: Where the Future So Eloquently Nests, or: What is Cinema Again? |
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5 Hitchcock, Film Studies, and New Media: The Impact of Technology on the Analysis of Film |
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6 Film Analysis and Statistics: A Field Report |
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7 A `Distant Reading' of the `Chaser Theory': Local Views and the Digital Generation of New Cinema History |
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8 Cine-Graphism: A New Approach to the Evolution of Film Language through Technology |
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9 Can We Have the Cave and Leave It Too? On the Meaning of Cinema as Technology |
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10 On Viewfinders, Video Assist Systems, and Tape Splicers: Questioning the History of Techniques and Technology in Cinema |
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Santiago Hidalgo is Director of the [ Laboratoire CinéMédias](http://labocinemedias.ca/) and [ Affiliate Professor](https://recherche.umontreal.ca/nos-chercheurs/repertoire-des-profe sseurs/chercheur/is/in28935/) at Université de Montréal. He is a member of the [ TECHNÊS](http://technes.org/) *International Research Partnership on Cinema Technology* scientific committee and editor of the [ Cinema and Technology](https://www.aup.nl/en/series/cinema-and-technology) series at Amsterdam University Press. He is co-editor of *The Blackwell Companion to Early Cinema* (Wiley, 2011). André Gaudreault is a professor in the Department of Art History and Cinema Studies at the Université de Montréal and Canada Research Chair in Cinema and Media Studies.
