Cinema and Technology
About the Book Series
Cinema and Technology focuses on the relationship between moving images and technology. Examining the ways in which media technologies have shaped – and been shaped by – the experience and understanding of the world, the series encompasses and invites a range of perspectives on moving-image technologies: their nature, functions and use in industrial, cultural, generic, experiential, material, social, and political contexts.
Inventing Cinema: Machines, Gestures and Media History
1st Edition
By Benoît Turquety
January 09, 2026
With machines mediating most of our cultural practices, and innovations, obsolescence and revivals constantly transforming our relation with images and sounds, media feel more unstable than ever. But was there ever a 'stable' moment in media history? Inventing Cinema proposes to approach this ...
Aesthetics of Early Sound Film: Media Change around 1930
1st Edition
Edited
By Daniel Wiegand
December 01, 2025
This volume takes a fresh look at the various aesthetics emerging globally in the early sound film era, with a focus on the films’ fundamentally experimental and inventive character. By considering films and production contexts often neglected in film studies, it strives to counter the still ...
Special Effects on the Screen: Faking the View from Méliès to Motion Capture
1st Edition
Edited
By Martin Lefebvre, Marc Furstenau
December 01, 2025
Since the very first days of cinema, audiences have marveled at the special effects imagery presented on movie screens. While long relegated to the margins of film studies, special effects have recently become the object of a burgeoning field of scholarship. With the emergence of a digital cinema, ...
The Aesthetics of Digital Montage: Film Editing and Technological Change
1st Edition
By Marc Furstenau
December 01, 2025
Tracing the recent changes to the technology of film editing, this book offers an account of the aesthetics of digital montage. It is commonly argued that the changes to the technical apparatus of editing, the emergence of new systems for digital editing, have altered the basic identity or ontology...
States of Immersion Across Media: Bodies, Techniques, Practices
1st Edition
Edited
By Philippe Bédard, Alanna Thain, Carl Therrien
April 22, 2025
Immersion across media opens our perception to altered states of consciousness. Far from disconnecting us from our surroundings, these experiences reframe how we connect to the world and to others. In this age of technological acceleration, myriad new media forms redefine our immersive habits and ...