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Techn /Technology
TheKeyDebates
MutationsandAppropriations
inEuropeanFilmStudies
SeriesEditors
IanChristie,DominiqueChateau,AnnievandenOever
AcademicAdvisoryBoard
FrancescoCasetti
LaurentCreton
JaneGaines
FrankKessler
AndrásBálintKovács
EricdeKuyper
LauraMulvey
RogerOdin
PatriciaPisters
EmilePoppe
PertSalabert
HeideSchlupmann
VivianSobchack
JanetStaiger
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Techn /Technology
Researching Cinema and Media
–
Technologies Their Development,
Use, and Impact
Edited by Annie van den Oever
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Contents
Editorial 9
Acknowledgments 11
Introduction:ResearchingCinemaandMediaTechnologies 15
AnnievandenOever
PARTI
PhilosophyofTechnology:Reassessing KeyQuestions
ThePhilosophyofTechnologyintheFrameofFilmTheory:Walter
Benjamin’sContribution 29
DominiqueChateau
TowardanArchaeologyoftheCinema/TechnologyRelation:From
Mechanizationto“DigitalCinema” 50
BenoîtTurquety
TechnēandPoiēsis:OnHeideggerandFilmTheory 65
RobertSinnerbrink
Stiegler’sPost-PhenomenologicalAccountofMediatedExperience 81
PatrickCrogan
WhatAreMedia? 93
LambertWiesing
PARTII
CinemaandMediaTechnologies:Hardware, Software,Wetware
The“HistoryofVision”-DebateRevisited 105
AnnemoneLigensa
Willthe3DRevolutionHappen?ABriefPerspectiveontheLong
HistoryofStereoscopy(withspecialthankstoEisensteinand
Bazin) 115
IanChristie
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Television’sManyTechnologies:Domesticity,Governmentality,
Genealogy 136
MarkusStauff
PostmodernHi-fivs.Post-CoolLo-fi:AnEpistemologicalWar 154
LaurentJullier
PARTIII
CinemaandMediaTechnologies:A HistoricalContext
Marey’sGun:ApparatusesofCaptureandtheOperationalImage 169
PasiVäliaho
Re-editingasPsychotechnique:MontageandMedialityinEarlySoviet
Cinema 177
MalteHagener
TechnophobiaandItalianFilmTheoryintheInterwarPeriod 185
FrancescoPitassio
Jean-LucGodard’sHISTOIRE(S)DUCINÉMA:CogitoErgoVideo 196
CélineScemama
Performativity/Expressivity:TheMobileMicroScreenandIts
Subject 207
NannaVerhoeffandHeidiRaeCooley
PARTIV
Discussions:RevisitingthePast
RethinkingtheMaterialityofTechnicalMedia:FriedrichKittler,
EnfantTerriblewithaRejuvenatingEffectonParentalDiscipline–
ADialogue 219
GeoffreyWinthrop-YoungandAnnievandenOever
RevisitingChristianMetz’s“ApparatusTheory”–ADialogue 240
MartinLefebvreandAnnievandenOever
PARTV
Envisioningthe Future
TheFutureHistoryofaVanishingMedium 261
AndréGaudreault
ExperimentalMediaArchaeology:APleaforNewDirections 272
AndreasFickersandAnnievandenOever
6 indexof subjects
Notes 279
GeneralBibliography 333
NotesonContributors 361
IndexofNames 367
IndexofFilmTitles 375
IndexofSubjects 377
contents 7

Editorial
Thinkingandtheorizingaboutfilmisalmostasoldasthemediumitself.Within
a few years of the earliest film shows in the 1890s, manifestos and reflections
began to appear which sought to analyze the seemingly vast potential of film.
Writers in France, Russia and Britain were among the first to enter this field,
and their texts have become cornerstones of the literature of cinema. Few na-
tions, however, failed to produce their own statements and dialogues about the
nature of cinema, often interacting with proponents of Modernism in the tradi-
tionalartsandcrafts.Filmthus founditselfembeddedin thediscourses ofmo-
dernity,especiallyinEuropeandSovietRussia.
“Film theory,” as it became known in the 1970s, has always had a historical
dimension, acknowledging its debts to the pioneers of analyzing film texts and
film experience, even while pressing these into service in the present. But as
scholarship in the history of film theory develops, there is an urgent need to
revisit many long-standing assumptions and clarify lines of transmission and
interpretation. The Key Debates is a series of books from Amsterdam University
Press which focuses on the central issues that continue to animate thinking
aboutfilmandaudiovisualmediaasthe“centuryofcelluloid”giveswaytoafield
ofinterrelateddigitalmedia.
InitiatedbyAnnievandenOever(theNetherlands),thedirectionoftheseries
hasbeenelaboratedbyaninternationalgroupoffilmscholars,includingDomin-
iqueChateau(France),IanChristie(UK),LaurentCreton(France),LauraMulvey
(UK), Roger Odin (France), Eric de Kuyper (Belgium), and Emile Poppe (Bel-
gium).Theintentionistodrawonthewidestpossiblerangeofexpertisetopro-
vide authoritative accounts of how debates around film originated, and to trace
how concepts that are commonly used today have been modified in the process
ofappropriation.Thebookseriesmaycontributetoboththeinventionaswellas
theabductionofconcepts.
IanChristie,DominiqueChateau,AnnievandenOever
London/Paris/Amsterdam
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