The Cinema of Extractions
February 05, 2025
February 05, 2025
PASADENA, California, Feb. 5 -- The California Institute of Technology issued the following news:
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The Cinema of Extractions
: Film Materials and Their Forms by Professor of Visual Culture Brian Jacobson is a short book with broad ambitions. On its face, the book draws attention to the material requirements of early filmmaking. These materials--coal, oil, minerals--had to be extracted from the earth to enable cinema's technologies. Studio lights a . . .
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The Cinema of Extractions
: Film Materials and Their Forms by Professor of Visual Culture Brian Jacobson is a short book with broad ambitions. On its face, the book draws attention to the material requirements of early filmmaking. These materials--coal, oil, minerals--had to be extracted from the earth to enable cinema's technologies. Studio lights a . . .