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Technologies of Seeing: Photography, Cinematography and Television

Technologies of Seeing: Photography, Cinematography and Television

by Brian Winston (Author)

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    Paperback 1996

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Synopsis

This text examines the complex forces pushing and constraining technological developments in cinema. It contests the view that technological advance is simply the result of scientific progress. Rather, the author argues that social forces control the media technology agenda at every stage.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 151
 Publisher: BFI Publishing
Published: 01 Oct 1996
ISBN 10: 0851706029
ISBN 13: 9780851706023
Book Overview: wonderfully readable ... impressive in its conceptual energy and scholarly detail'. Screen

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wonderfully readable ... impressive in its conceptual energy and scholarly detail'. Screen
Author Bio
BRIAN WINSTON is the Lincoln Professor of Communications at the University of Lincoln, and has been involved with documentary since 1963. He has an Emmy for documentary scriptwriting; has taught documentary in both the US and the UK; and has long been involved with many international documentary film festivals and the Visible Evidence conference series. Winston first wrote about documentary in 1978. He is the author of a number of books, including Media, Technology and Society: A History, from the Telegraph to the Internet (1998), a volume on Fires Were Started- (1999) in the BFI Film Classics series, Lies, Damn Lies and Documentaries (2000) and Messages: Free Expression, Media and the West, from Gutenberg to Google (2005).