1st Edition
Visions of Electric Media Television in the Victorian and Machine Ages
By Ivy Roberts
Copyright 2019
286 Pages
by
Routledge
286 Pages
by
Routledge
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... Read more
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
Biography
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.
