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From Doors to Screens: Cinematic Incorporations of Technology

by Ido Lewit

Objects and technologies as part of cinematic meaning

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Objects and technologies as part of cinematic meaning

Doors, clocks, gramophones, and video screens become points of analysis in Ido Lewit’s study of how technologies represented within films interact with cinema’s own form. Drawing on films by Ernst Lubitsch, Fritz Lang, Werner Herzog, Michael Haneke, and others, the book examines how these objects can shape narrative, expression, and argument. Its framework brings media theory to film analysis and proposes close reading as an alternative to interpreting such objects primarily as symbols or metaphors.

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  • Film students and scholars interested in historical film and media theory
  • Readers curious about how objects and technologies contribute to cinematic form and meaning

Themes

Film and technologyIntermedialityMedia theoryClose readingCinematic form and meaning

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Book overview

Reveals how objects and technologies function as discursive agents in film, with formal, narrative, and argumentative consequences.

From Doors to Screens treats filmic representations of non-filmic technologies as potentially meaningful intermedial encounters, wherein the objects and media represented interact with the basic characteristics of film in ways that affect cinematic expression, meaning-making, and argumentation. Focusing on doors, clocks, gramophones, and video screens in films by Ernst Lubitsch, Fritz Lang, Werner Herzog, Michael Haneke, and others, the book reveals how these objects and technologies function as discursive agents, with formal, narrative, and argumentative consequences. Applying media theory to film analysis, the book proposes a novel methodology for the close reading of films, offering an alternative to more common symbolic and metaphorical interpretations.

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