The Cinematic apparatus

This book explores the complex relationship between the technical and the social aspects of film. This relationship, the contributors argue, constitutes the cinematic apparatus, which can be understood only through a close examination of both the actual machinery of cinema and the metapsychology of cinema- the constructions, positions and effects of meaning and subjectivity involved in the various aspects of the technical mechanism. Among the specific topics addressed by the contributors are: technology and ideology in cinema; sound, color, animation and the perception of motion as aspects of the apparatus; avant-garde practice and technological determinations; and the cinematic apparatus from the perspective of the radical questions posed by feminist critiques.