the rise of the image the fall of the word
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Contents:
Foreword: "A Transistional Period"
1. Introduction: "The Next Room"
Part 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
Part 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
Part 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
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