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Optical Media

ISBN: 978-0-7456-4091-4
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332 pages
December 2009, Polity
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Preliminary Remarks

1. Theoretical Presuppositions

2. Technologies of the Fine Arts

2.1 Camera Obscura and Linear Perspective

2.1.1 Prehistory

2.1.1.1 Greeks and Arabs

2.1.2 Implementation

2.1.2.1 Brunelleschi

2.1.2.2 Alberti

2.1.3 Impact

2.1.3.1 Perspective and Letterpress

2.1.3.2 The Self-Printing of Nature

2.1.3.3 Europe’s Colonial Power

2.2 Laterna Magica and the Age of the World Picture

2.2.1 Magic Lanterns in Action

2.2.2 Implementation

2.2.3 Impact

2.2.3.1 Propaganda

2.2.3.2 Heidegger’s Age of the World Picture

2.2.3.3 Jesuits and Optical Media

2.3.3.4 Travelling People

2.2.3.5 Jesuit Churches

2.2.3.6 Jesuit Theatre

2.3 Enlightenment and Image War

2.3.1 Brockes

2.3.2 Phenomenology from Lambert to Hegel

2.3.3 Ghost Seer

2.3.3.1 Schiller

2.3.3.2 Hoffmann

2.3.4 Romantic Poetry

3. Optical Media

3.1 Photography

3.1.1 Prehistory

3.1.2 Implementation

3.1.2.1 Niépce and Daguerre

3.1.2.2 Talbot

3.1.3 Painting and Photography: A Battle for the Eyeballs

3.2 Film

3.2.1 Preludes

3.2.2 Implementation

3.2.2.1 Marey and Muybridge

3.2.2 Silent Film

3.2.3 Sound Film

3.2.4 Colour Film

3.3 Television

4. Computer

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