Preface to the English edition : The sight machine -- Military force is based upon deception -- Cinema isn't I see, it's I fly -- Abandon all hope, ye who enter the hell of images -- The imposture of immediacy -- The 'Fern Andre' cinema -- Sicut prior est tempore ita quo potior lure -- A travelling shot over eighty years.
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Looking at how the technologies of cinema and warfare have developed a fatal interdependence, this book explores these conjunctions from a range of perspectives. It gives a detailed technical history of weaponry, photography and cinematography, with accounts of films and military campaigns.