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Fast Glass: Modernity, Technology, and the Cinematic Lens.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Fast Glass: Modernity, Technology, and the Cinematic Lens./
Author:	Daigle, Allain.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2019,
Description:	248 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-12, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International80-12A.
Subject:	Cinematography. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=13881295
ISBN:	9781392207925

Fast Glass: Modernity, Technology, and the Cinematic Lens.
Daigle, Allain.

Fast Glass: Modernity, Technology, and the Cinematic Lens. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 248 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-12, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, 2019.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

This dissertation tells a cultural history of how lenses became cinema lenses. While lenses are essential for film production, we know very little about the early history of cinema lenses. Rather than just focusing on which lenses were used on certain movies, I historicize how lens production became an industry. Between the 1880s and the 1920s, lens production shifted from an artisanal craft to a commercial industry. By looking at how companies created lenses for film production and projection, I expand early film history to account for the creative work of opticians, engineers, advertisers, and distributors. In more specifically focusing on how lenses became "cinema lenses," I historicize how ideas central to film studies - perspective, objectivity, subjectivity, and realism - were considered in relationship to lenses. I examine four influential optical companies in Germany (Zeiss), France (E. Krauss), the United States (Bausch & Lomb), and England (Taylor-Hobson). By examining international optics alongside film history, we can see that lenses were not just the product of remarkable inventors or ever-improving designs. Ultimately, I argue that lenses were shaped by a wide range of social, cultural, and industrial debates about the role that technologies of vision played in 19th and 20th century life.

ISBN: 9781392207925Subjects--Topical Terms:

546522
Cinematography.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Cultural history

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