Description: Further DetailsTitle: Optical MediaCondition: NewEAN: 9780745640914ISBN: 9780745640914Publisher: Polity PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 11/20/2009Item Height: 229mmItem Length: 153mmItem Width: 14mmItem Weight: 376gLanguage: EnglishDescription: This major new book provides a concise history of optical media from Renaissance linear perspective to late twentieth-century computer graphics. Kittler begins by looking at European painting since the Renaissance in order to discern the principles according to which modern optical perception was organized. He also discusses the development of various mechanical devices, such as the camera obscura and the laterna magica, which were closely connected to the printing press and which played a pivotal role in the media war between the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation. After examining this history, Kittler then addresses the ways in which images were first stored and made to move, through the development of photography and film. He discusses the competitive relationship between photography and painting as well as between film and theater, as innovations like the Baroque proscenium or "picture-frame" stage evolved from elements that would later constitute cinema. The central question, however, is the impact of film on the ancient monopoly of writing, as it not only provoked new forms of competition for novelists but also fundamentally altered the status of books. In the final section, Kittler examines the development of electrical telecommunications and electronic image processing from television to computer simulations. In short, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of image production that is indispensable for anyone wishing to understand the prevailing audiovisual conditions of contemporary culture.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: Technology & EngineeringAuthor: Friedrich KittlerTopic: Society & CultureRelease Year: 2009 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Optical Media
Title: Optical Media
EAN: 9780745640914
ISBN: 9780745640914
Release Date: 11/20/2009
Release Year: 2009
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Technology & Engineering
Topic: Society & Culture
Number of Pages: 332 Pages
Publication Name: Optical Media
Language: English
Publisher: Polity Press
Subject: Film / General, Media Studies, History / Contemporary (1945-), Social History, Television & Video, General, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2009
Item Weight: 15.2 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Art, Performing Arts, Technology & Engineering, Social Science, Photography, Psychology, History
Item Length: 8.9 in
Author: Friedrich Kittler
Item Width: 5.9 in
Format: Trade Paperback
