The rise of the image, the fall of the word / Mitchell Stephens.
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1998.
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Table of Contents:
- preface: "A Transitional Period,"
- 1. Introduction: "The Next Room,"
- Pt. I. Suspicion of the New
- 2. "These Traditional Splendors of Letters": Writing and the Power of New Media
- 3. "Ignorance's Weapons": Print and the Threat of New Media
- 4. "Shrouded in the Traditional Form": When Media Are Young
- Pt. II. The Magic of Images
- 5. "By Means of the Visible": A Picture's Worth
- 6. "Fast Seeing": Photographic Reality
- 7. "Free... from Human Immobility": Moving Pictures
- 8. "Multiple Fragments... Assembled Under a New Law": Montage
- 9. "Gifts of Paralysis": Talking Pictures and Couch Potatoes
- Pt. III. The New Video
- 10. "A Forced Condensation of Energy": Fast Cutting
- 11. "Increasingly Complex Media": New Technologies
- 12. "Complex Seeing": A New Form
- 13. Thinking "Above the Stream": New Philosophies
- acknowledgments
- photo credits
- notes
- bibliography
- index.