Zoom epistemologies : technology, education and representation in the 1970s
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation examines the impact of a new visual technology, the zoom lens, on three channels of film production and pedagogy in the 1970s: documentaries of science, ethnography, and experimental cinema. With its ability to transition smoothly from capturing details in telephoto to surveying large scenes in wide angle, the zoom lens was foremost among advances in cinema technology concurrent to a dramatic expansion in the use of media in higher education. Both practical and economical, the zoom lens was widely used in commercial film and television after World War II, but it was of particular utility to filmmaker-educators, who adapted its unique visual syntax to meet specific intellectual and cultural demands. Modeling contemporary forms of attention and mediating new relations between detail and whole, distance and presence, self and other, the educational zoom constructed modern perspectival laws for an era of abstract technical and cognitive processes. Zoom Epistemologies focuses on "classroom films, " educational television programs and experimental films which made extensive use of the zoom during the late 1960s and 1970s, revealing how filmmakers and educators negotiated emergent cinematic conventions around the representation and transmission of knowledge.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2018; ©2018 |
| Publication date | 2018; 2018 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Metzger, Michael Streicher |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Levi, Pavle |
| Thesis advisor | Levi, Pavle |
| Thesis advisor | Denson, Shane |
| Thesis advisor | Ma, Jean, 1972- |
| Thesis advisor | Richmond, Scott C |
| Degree committee member | Denson, Shane |
| Degree committee member | Ma, Jean, 1972- |
| Degree committee member | Richmond, Scott C |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Art and Art History. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Michael Streicher Metzger. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Art and Art History. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2018. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2018 by Michael Streicher Metzger
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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