Techné/Technology: Researching Cinema and Media Technologies - their Development, Use, and Impact.

This fourth title in the series The Key Debates sets out where the term techne comes from, how it unleashed a revolution in thought and how the concept in the midst of the current digital revolution, once again, is influencing the study of film. In addition, the authors - among them André Gaudreault, Geoffrey Wintrop-Young, Martin Lefevbre, Dominique Chateau, Nanna Verhoeff, Andreas Fickers and Ian Christie - investigate how technologies have affected the major debates about film, how they affected film theory and some of its key concepts. This is one of the rare books to assess the comprehensive history of the philosophies of technology and their impact on film and media theory in greater detail.

European Research Council (ERC) 283464

Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-359) and indexes.

Introduction : researching cinema and media technologies / Annie van den Oever -- Part I. Philosophy of technology : reassessing key questions -- The philosophy of technology in the frame of film theory : Walter Benjamin's contribution / Dominique Chateau -- Toward an archaeology of the cinema/technology relation : from mechanization to "digital cinema" / Benoît Turquety -- Technē and Poiēsis : on Heidegger and film theory / Robert Sinnerbrink -- Stiegler's post-phenomenological account of mediated experience / Patrick Crogan -- What are media? / Lambet Wiesing -- Part II. Cinema and media technologies : hardware, software, wetware -- The "history of vision"-debate revisited / Annemone Ligensa -- Will the 3D revolution happen? A brief perspective on the long history of stereoscopy (with special thanks to Eisenstein and Bazin) / Ian Christie -- Television's many technologies : domesticity, governmentality, genealogy / Markus Stauff -- Postmodern hi-fi vs. post-cool lo-fi : an epistemological war / Laurent Jullier -- Part III. Cinema and media technologies : a historical context -- Marey's gun : apparatuses of capture and the operational image / Pasi Väliaho -- Re-editing as psychotechnique : montage and mediality in early Soviet Cinema / Malte Hagener -- Technophobia and Italian film theoy in the interwar period / Francesco Pitassio -- Jean-Luc Godard's Histoire(s) du cinéma : cogito ergo video / Céline Scemama -- Peformativity/Expressivity : the mobile micro screen and its subject / Nanna Verhoeff and Heidi Rae Cooley -- Part IV. Discussions : revisiting the past -- Rethinking the materiality of technical media : Friedrich Kittler, enfant terrible with a rejuvenating effect on parental discipline : a dialogue / Geoffrey Winthrop-Young and Annie van den Oever -- Revisiting Christian Metz's "apparatus theory" : a dialogue / Martin Lefebvre and Annie van den Oever -- Part V. Envisioning the future -- The future history of a vanishing medium / André Gaudreault -- Experimental media archaeology : a plea for new directions / Andeas Fickers and Annie van den Oever.

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