Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction—Discourse/Device/Practice/Institution: Representational Technologies and American Culture 1
5. 1. Inscriptions and Simulations: The Imagination of Technology 16
6. 2. Performance, Inscription, Diegesis: The Technological Transformation of Representational Causality 61
7. 3. Everything But the Kitchen Sync: Sound and Image Before the Talkies 92
8. 4. Sound Theory 123
9. 5. Standards and Practices: Aesthetic Norm and Technological Innovation in the American Cinema 154
10. 6. Sound Space and Classical Narrative 180
11. Conclusion 217
12. Notes 223
13. Index 265