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Inventing Cinema is meticulously researched, with particular success in focusing on important but neglected aspects of visual technologies. - Stephen Herbert, Journal of Film Preservation, 102, April 2020 [-][-] Turquety's study of the invention of the cinema superbly unpacks the overwhelming impact of the birth of the cinema on academia, aesthetics, and both high and popular culture. It is a must-read for all in the fields of history of cinema, technology, and media. - Annie van den Oever (University of Groningen)[-][-] Beno t Turquety's book on the invention of the cinema manages to provide an overview of the way cinema came into the world that is precise in its historical detail and deep in its theoretical considerations. This is the finest single work on the invention of cinema I have yet read. - Tom Gunning (University of Chicago)

Turquety's study of the invention of the cinema superbly unpacks the overwhelming impact of the birth of the cinema on academia, aesthetics, and both high and popular culture. It is a must-read for all in the fields of history of cinema, technology, and media. - Annie van den Oever (University of Groningen)[-][-] Beno t Turquety's book on the invention of the cinema manages to provide an overview of the way cinema came into the world that is precise in its historical detail and deep in its theoretical considerations. This is the finest single work on the invention of cinema I have yet read. - Tom Gunning (University of Chicago)

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Benoît Turquety is a professor in the film department at the University of Lausanne and director of the SNF research project on Bolex and amateur cinema. He is a founding member of the Material Archival Studies Network, and a member of the Dispositives research group, of the Network for Experimental Media Archaeology, and the Technology and the Humanities project.

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