Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• DORON GALILI

Titel

Ancient Affiliates: The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Cinema and Television

Ist Teil von

• Seeing by Electricity, 2020, p.17

Ort / Verlag

Duke University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The study of the early history of television necessitates us to forsake assumptions about linear historical developments, pursuits of a singular original idea that would mark the medium’s historical stating point, and considerations of the nature of the medium as seen retrospectively through the lens of its present dominant configuration. Instead, the history of television, as with all other media, has multiple starting points and is deeply embedded in a complex of cultural and media practices of the time. Writings about moving image transmission technologies started appearing in numerous fictional scenarios, technical proposals, cartoons, news reports, and hoaxes that were