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

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"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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Main Author: Galili, Doron (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Cinema et television.
Telediffusion > 1870-1914.
Television > 1870-1914.
Fernsehen
Entstehung
Television broadcasting.
Television.
Motion pictures.
PERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism
Cinema > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Television > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Motion pictures > History > 20th century.
Television > History > 20th century.
Television broadcasting > History > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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

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