Cinema, trance and cybernetics
Author(s): Holl, Ute
Abstract
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.
Preferred Citation
Holl, Ute: Cinema, trance and cybernetics. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press 2017. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/703.
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