R. Eugeni
Abstract
The title of Francesco Casetti’s book is at the same time brilliant and deliberately misleading; indeed, though referring to McLuhan (1962), it differs from it on at least three relevant points. First, McLuhan insists on the importance of the medium’s technological and material basis in determining both the media experience and the perception of the medium itself; Casetti, by contrast, believes that media experiences and the very possibility of recognizing media specificities are relatively independent of their technological bases and their material conditions of viewing and listening, since they represent specific cultural forms:
Citation format
EUGENI, R. The lumière galaxy: Seven key words for the cinema to come. New Review of Film and Television Studies, 2015, 13: 443–447.