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Playful visions : optical toys and the emergence of children's media culture / Meredith A. Bak.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bak, Meredith A., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Toys--History--19th century.
- Toys.
- Children's mass media--History.
- Children's mass media.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 276 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : The MIT Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- The kaleidoscope, the stereoscope, and other nineteenth-century optical toys analyzed as "new media" of their era, provoking anxieties similar to our own about children and screens.
- Contents:
- Introduction: the Ludic archive
- Templates, toys, and text : optical toys in nineteenth-century children's culture
- Language in motion : the thaumatrope establishes a multimedia convention
- Seeing things : optical play at home
- Movable toy books and the culture of independent play
- Color education : from the chaotic kaleidoscope to the orderly spectrum
- Democracy and discipline : object lessons and the stereoscope in American education, 1870-1920
- Conclusion: oversized optics in the digital age.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-35805-0
- 0-262-35804-2
- OCLC:
- 1130238347
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