Television before TV : new media and exhibition culture in Europe and the USA, 1928-1939.

Television before TV' rethinks the history of interwar television by exploring the medium's numerous demonstrations organized at national fairs and international exhibitions in the late 1920s and 1930s. Building upon extensive archival research in Britain, Germany, and the United States, A...

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Edition:1ST ED.
Imprint: AMSTERDAM : AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY PR, 2022.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
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Series:Televisual culture.
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction: Interwar Television on Display
  • 1. Television Display in Context
  • 2. Spectacularizing Television, or Making Sense of Novelty
  • 3. Locating Television Between Imaginaries and Materialities
  • 4. Nationalizing Television in a Transnational Context
  • 5. Domesticating Television Outside the Home
  • 6. Gendering Television On and Off Screen
  • Epilogue: Television Experiments, Past and Present
  • Full Bibliography
  • Index