Television before TV : New Media and Exhibition Culture in Europe and the USA, 1928-1939 / Anne-Katrin Weber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weber, Anne-Katrin, Author.

Series:

Televisual culture

Televisual culture.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Television broadcasting--History.

Television broadcasting.

Television--Exhibitions--History.

Television.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (390 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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, Anne-Katrin Weber analyses the sites where the new medium met its first audiences. She argues that public displays were central to television’s social construction; for the historian, the exhibitions therefore constitute crucial events to understand not only the medium’s pre-war emergence, but also its subsequent domestication in the post-war years. Designed as a transnational study, her book highlights the multiple circulations of artefacts and ideas across borders of democratic and totalitarian regimes alike. Richly illustrated with 100 photographs, Weber finally emphasizes that even without regular programmes, interwar television was widely seen.

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

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0https://www.aup.nl/en/publish/open-access

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ISBN:

1-04-079320-7

94-6372-781-7

9781003704973

OCLC:

1313904855