Roberts Visions of Electric Media

Television in the Victorian and Machine Ages
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-90-485-3787-7
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten

Reihe: Televisual culture

Visions of Electric Media is an historical examination into the early history of television, as it was understood during the Victorian and Machine ages. How did the television that we use today develop into a functional technology? What did Victorians expect it to become? How did the 'vision' of television change once viewers could actually see pictures on a screen?

We will journey through the history of 'television': from the first indications of live communications in technology and culture in the late nineteenth century, to the development of electronic televisual systems in the early twentieth century. Along the way, we will investigate the philosophy, folklore, engineering practices, and satires that went into making television a useful medium.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roberts, Ivy

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Mediengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Fernsehen & Rundfunk

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Lifespan of a Media Technology The Telephonoscope: How a Satire of Electric Light became a Visual Telephone The Far-Sight Machine and the Kinetograph: How Television Brought Liveness to the Cinema Human Seeing-Machines: From Annihilating Space to Mediated Vision Interlude The Illuminating Engineers: Standardizing Vision The Ikonophone: Bell Laboratory's Two-Way Television Project Epilogue Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Roberts, Ivy
Ivy Roberts is an interdisciplinary film/media studies scholar who researches in the fields of cultural history, visual culture, and STS. She holds a Ph.D. from Virginia Commonwealth’s interdisciplinary program in Media, Art, and Text.

Ivy Roberts is an interdisciplinary film/media studies scholar who researches in the fields of cultural history, visual culture, and STS. Dr. Roberts holds a Ph.D. from Virginia Commonwealth's interdisciplinary program in Media, Art, and Text. Visions of Electric Media has been adapted from her dissertation, which was entitled. Dr. Roberts' next book is an edited volume of critical approaches to Victorian and Radium Age science fiction. She is first and foremost a devoted teacher who holds adjunct faculty positions at Virginia Commonwealth University, the University of Maryland University College, and Southern New Hampshire University.