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Cinema, Trance and Cybernetics

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We've all had the experience of watching a film and feeling like we've been in a trance. This book takes that experience seriously, explaining cinema as a cultural technique of trance, one that unconsciously transforms our perceptions. Ute Holl moves from anthropological and experimental cinema through nineteenth-century psychological laboratories, which she shows developed techniques for testing, measuring, and classifying the mind that can be seen as a prehistory of cinema, one that allows us to see the links among cinema, anthropology, psychology, and cybernetics.

Author(s): Ute Holl
Series: Recursions
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Year: 2017

Language: English
Pages: 325
City: Amsterdam

Cover
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface to the English Translation of Cinema, Trance and Cybernetics
In the Beginning
Part I
1. Cinema
2. Cybernetics
3. Knots
4. To Whom it May Concern
Part II
1. Discretions
2. Depersonalizations
3. Deviations
4. Compressions
Part III
1. Mental Apparatuses
2. Psycho-Motor Activity
3. Psycho-Drama
4. Psycho-Technology
5. Psycho-Reflexology
Part IV
1. The Truth Won by Means of Film
Part V
1. After All: Return to Receiver
Notes
Bibliography
Index