Black light: revealing the hidden history of photography and cinema

Abstract

"Investigating the optical, cosmological, and racial thought that surrounded the conception of photography and cinema, Black Light shows how these media are entangled with two key preoccupations of the Enlightenment: visualizing the mysteries of the cosmos and managing Blackness. As Christophe Wall-Romana deprovincializes media archaeology, he presents a historical framework with which to reenvision our dominant modes of seeing and understanding the world."-- Provided by publisher.