Holl, Ute2018-10-012018-10-012017978-90-8964-668-2https://mediarep.org/handle/doc/3523We'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.engKybernetikTranceKinoPsychologiecyberneticstrancefilm experience150Cinema, trance and cybernetics10.25969/mediarep/70310.5117/9789089646682