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Audiovisions : Cinema and Television as Entr'actes in History

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Audiovisions : Cinema and Television as Entr'actes in History
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Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
ISBN/ASIN: 905356313X
ISBN-13: 9789053563137
Number of pages: 360

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The book reconstructs the complex genesis of cinema and television as historically relative - and thus finite - cultural forms, focussing on the dynamics and tension in the interaction between the apparatus and its uses. It is also a plea for 'staying power' in studies of cultural technology and technological culture of film.

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