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Author: Jens Schröter (University of Bonn, Germany)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 3.30cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.576kg
ISBN: 9781441167262
ISBN 10: 1441167269
Pages: 496
Publication Date: 13 March 2014
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Language: English
Reviews
What if, instead of writing the history of those things that have become the cultural dominant, we were to write the history of the overlooked - of those other, non-victorious cultural forms that the march of history pushed into the shade? And what if the history in question is that of visual media, from Daguerre to the present? Jens Schroter's inquiry begins as a project of 'minor' history, tracing the development of one among the many visual media existing in the shadows of the dominant: the 3-D (or 'transplane') image. In the course of excavating this particular terrain something larger and more dangerous is unearthed: the systematic blind-spots, exclusions, red herrings, and cul-de-sacs that have helped to shape the shiny new discipline of the history of visuality. Warning: this book may cause the reader to lose faith in a number of cherished beliefs concerning visual regimes and their periodization, and the viability of such concepts as embodied spectatorship, the physiological paradigm of vision, and the theoretical fiction known as 'the observer. -- Norman Bryson, Professor of Art History, Theory, and Criticism, University of California, San Diego, USA Schroter's book gives an in-depth insight into the puzzling amalgam of 3D images, for the first time in media history sufficiently exploring the technical difference of stereoscopic and holographic '3D', as well as the theoretical implications of the respective methods. Challenging Jonathan Crary's seminal studies of the stereoscopic image (Techniques of the Observer), Jens Schroter demonstrates that the history of 3D-images is not changing abruptly, but that there a parallel threads in the evolution of visual media according to various hypotheses about the nature of light. -- Stephan Gunzel, Professor of Media Theory, BTK University of Applied Sciences, Germany An intriguing and insightful study. -- Sean Johnston, Professor of Science, Technology and Society, University of Glasgow, UK
What if, instead of writing the history of those things that have become the cultural dominant, we were to write the history of the overlooked - of those other, non-victorious cultural forms that the march of history pushed into the shade? And what if the history in question is that of visual media, from Daguerre to the present? Jens Schroter's inquiry begins as a project of `minor' history, tracing the development of one among the many visual media existing in the shadows of the dominant: the 3-D (or `transplane') image. In the course of excavating this particular terrain something larger and more dangerous is unearthed: the systematic blind-spots, exclusions, red herrings, and cul-de-sacs that have helped to shape the shiny new discipline of the history of visuality. Warning: this book may cause the reader to lose faith in a number of cherished beliefs concerning visual regimes and their periodization, and the viability of such concepts as embodied spectatorship, the physiological paradigm of vision, and the theoretical fiction known as `the observer. -- Norman Bryson, Professor of Art History, Theory, and Criticism, University of California, San Diego, USA Schroter's book gives an in-depth insight into the puzzling amalgam of 3D images, for the first time in media history sufficiently exploring the technical difference of stereoscopic and holographic `3D', as well as the theoretical implications of the respective methods. Challenging Jonathan Crary's seminal studies of the stereoscopic image (Techniques of the Observer), Jens Schroter demonstrates that the history of 3D-images is not changing abruptly, but that there a parallel threads in the evolution of visual media according to various hypotheses about the nature of light. -- Stephan Gunzel, Professor of Media Theory, BTK University of Applied Sciences, Germany An intriguing and insightful study. -- Sean Johnston, Professor of Science, Technology and Society, University of Glasgow, UK
What if, instead of writing the history of those things that have become the cultural dominant, we were to write the history of the overlooked - of those other, non-victorious cultural forms that the march of history pushed into the shade? And what if the history in question is that of visual media, from Daguerre to the present? Jens Schroeter's inquiry begins as a project of 'minor' history, tracing the development of one among the many visual media existing in the shadows of the dominant: the 3-D (or 'transplane') image. In the course of excavating this particular terrain something larger and more dangerous is unearthed: the systematic blind-spots, exclusions, red herrings, and cul-de-sacs that have helped to shape the shiny new discipline of the history of visuality. Warning: this book may cause the reader to lose faith in a number of cherished beliefs concerning visual regimes and their periodization, and the viability of such concepts as embodied spectatorship, the physiological paradigm of vision, and the theoretical fiction known as 'the observer. -- Norman Bryson, Professor of Art History, Theory, and Criticism, University of California, San Diego, USA Schroeter's book gives an in-depth insight into the puzzling amalgam of 3D images, for the first time in media history sufficiently exploring the technical difference of stereoscopic and holographic '3D', as well as the theoretical implications of the respective methods. Challenging Jonathan Crary's seminal studies of the stereoscopic image (Techniques of the Observer), Jens Schroeter demonstrates that the history of 3D-images is not changing abruptly, but that there a parallel threads in the evolution of visual media according to various hypotheses about the nature of light. -- Stephan Gunzel, Professor of Media Theory, BTK University of Applied Sciences, Germany An intriguing and insightful study. -- Sean Johnston, Professor of Science, Technology and Society, University of Glasgow, UK
Author Information
Jens Schröter is Professor of Theory and Practice of Multimedia Systems in the Department of Media Studies, University of Siegen, Germany, and is also the co-editor, with Stefan Rieger, of Das holographische Wissen, Berlin (2009).
