Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Arceneaux, Noah

Titel

Screen Culture: A Global History by Richard Butsch (review)

Ist Teil von

• Technology and Culture, 2020-10, Vol.61 (4), p.1217-1219

Ort / Verlag

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

Project MUSE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In 225 pages, (supplemented with 72 pages of notes), esteemed scholar Richard Butsch sets out to provide a cultural history of electronic media technologies used for visual communication—specifically film, television, and online video, accessed via smartphones and computers. Drawing from his previous work as a cultural scholar of audience studies, Butsch pays particular attention to the consumption practices for visual media, including the rowdy interactions of silent film patrons and the group-viewing practices from the early "tavern era" of television. While it is undeniably true that these platforms, emphasizing personal computers and smartphones, are increasingly popular ways for people to consume visual media, these same devices can also be used for other purposes.