Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the hegemony of the printed word was shattered by the arrival of new media technologies that offered novel ways of communicating and storing data. Previously, writing had operated by way of symbolic mediation--all data had to pass through the needle's eye of the written signifier--but phonography, photography, and cinematography stored ...(展开全部)

Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the hegemony of the printed word was shattered by the arrival of new media technologies that offered novel ways of communicating and storing data. Previously, writing had operated by way of symbolic mediation--all data had to pass through the needle's eye of the written signifier--but phonography, photography, and cinematography stored ...(展开全部)

Prenant la suite d'Aufschreibesysteme 1800-1900 paru un an plus tôt, Gramophone, Film, Typewriter (1986) élargit les ambitions théoriques de celui-ci : le livre sonde les infrastructures matérielles de la culture moderne, montrant au passage comment la psychanalyse est corrélée à la naissance du gramophone, l'art de la guerre au cinéma et l'émancipation de la femme au développe...(展开全部)

Prenant la suite d'Aufschreibesysteme 1800-1900 paru un an plus tôt, Gramophone, Film, Typewriter (1986) élargit les ambitions théoriques de celui-ci : le livre sonde les infrastructures matérielles de la culture moderne, montrant au passage comment la psychanalyse est corrélée à la naissance du gramophone, l'art de la guerre au cinéma et l'émancipation de la femme au développe...(展开全部)

Anyone who cares to understand the cultural ferment of America in the later twentieth century must know of the writings and lives of those scruffy bohemians known as the Beats. In this highly entertaining work, Bill Morgan, the country's leading authority on the movement and a man who personally knew most of the Beat writers, narrates their history, tracing their origins in th...(展开全部)

Anyone who cares to understand the cultural ferment of America in the later twentieth century must know of the writings and lives of those scruffy bohemians known as the Beats. In this highly entertaining work, Bill Morgan, the country's leading authority on the movement and a man who personally knew most of the Beat writers, narrates their history, tracing their origins in th...(展开全部)

One of the most popular Macintosh books ever written, The Mac is not a typewriter has been called the "Strunk and White of typography." Best-selling author Robin Williams's simple, logical principles for using type to produce beautiful, professional documents are as true now as they were when the original edition was published in 1989. This updated edition includes new examples...(展开全部)

Chinese writing is character based, the one major world script that is neither alphabetic nor syllabic. Through the years, the Chinese written language encountered presumed alphabetic universalism in the form of Morse Code, Braille, stenography, Linotype, punch cards, word processing, and other systems developed with the Latin alphabet in mind. This book is about those encounte...(展开全部)

Chinese writing is character based, the one major world script that is neither alphabetic nor syllabic. Through the years, the Chinese written language encountered presumed alphabetic universalism in the form of Morse Code, Braille, stenography, Linotype, punch cards, word processing, and other systems developed with the Latin alphabet in mind. This book is about those encounte...(展开全部)

"Editing is the creative force of filmic reality." So Dmytryk, director of the American classic "The Caine Mutiny" begins this little book, which he hopes will aid film directors and editors in perfecting their art. It is informative for general audiences as well, demonstrating how deeply the experience of any film relies on the creativity and versatility of its editor. Product...(展开全部)