Cinema, Trance and Cybernetics

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Cinema, Trance and Cybernetics is written by Ute Holl and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9048523486 (ISBN 10) and 9789048523481 (ISBN 13).

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.