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Seeing by Electricity : The Emergence of Television, 1878-1939 /

"SEEING BY ELECTRICITY traces an early history of television--from 19th-century imaginaries of a technology that would allow viewers to see by electricity to an institutionalized medium subject to government regulation and telecommunications corporations. Throughout, Doron Galili demonstrates t...

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Autor principal: Galili, Doron (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 Ancient Affiliates: The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Cinema and Television
  • 2 Severed Eyeballs and Prolonged Optic Nerves: Television as Modern Prosthetic Vision
  • 3 Happy Combinations of Electricity and Photography: Moving Image Transmission in the Early Cinema Era
  • 4 Cinema's Radio Double: Hollywood Comes to Terms with Television
  • 5 "We Must Prepare!": Dziga Vertov and the Avant-Garde Reception of Television
  • 6 Thinking across Media: Classical Film Theory's Encounter with Television
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index