Doron Galili

Seeing by Electricity

The Emergence of Television, 1878-1939

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Produktbeschreibung

Doron Galili traces television's early history, from the fantastical devices initially imagined fifty years before the first television prototypes to the emergence of broadcast television in the 1930s, showing how television was always discussed and treated in relation to cinema.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9781478007722
• ISBN-10: 1478007729
• Artikelnr.: 56928104

Autorenporträt

Doron Galili is Researcher in the Department of Media Studies at Stockholm University and coeditor of Corporeality in Early Cinema: Viscera, Skin, and Physical Form.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction  1
Part I. Archaeologies of Moving Image Transmission
1. Ancient Affiliates: The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Cinema and
Television  17
2. Severed Eyeballs and Prolonged Optic Nerves: Television as Modern
Prosthetic Vision  50
3. Happy Combinations of Electricity and Photography: Moving Image
Transmission in the Early Cinema Era  74
Part II. Debating the Specificity of Television, On- and Off-Screen
4. Cinema's Radio Double: Hollywood Comes to Terms with Television  105
5. "We Must Prepare!": Dziga Vertov and the Avant-Garde Reception of
Television  145
6. Thinking across Media: Classical Film Theory's Encounter with
Television  167
Conclusion  184
Notes  189
Bibliography  221
Index  239