| Multimedia Histories: From Magic Lanterns to Internet Contributor(s): Lyons, James (Author), Plunkett, John (Author), Armstrong, Isobel (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 0859897737 ISBN-13: 9780859897730 Publisher: University of Exeter Press OUR PRICE: $32.67 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2006 Annotation: This is the first book to explore in detail the vital connections between today's digital culture and an absorbing history of screen entertainments and technologies. Its range of coverage moves from the magic lantern, the stereoscope and early film to the DVD and the internet. By reaching back into the innovative media practices of the nineteenth century, it outlines many of the revealing continuities between nineteenth, century, it outlines many of the revealing continuities between nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century multimedia culture. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Media Studies - Performing Arts | Television - General - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism |
| Dewey: 791.430 |
| Series: Exeter Studies in Film History (Softcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 6.57" W x 9.44" (1.23 lbs) 302 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Multimedia Histories: From the Magic Lantern to the Internet is the first book to explore in detail the vital connections between today's digital culture and an absorbing history of screen entertainments and technologies. Its range of coverage moves from the magic lantern, the stereoscope and early film to the DVD and the internet. By reaching back into the innovative media practices of the nineteenth century, Multimedia Histories outlines many of the revealing continuities between nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century multimedia culture. Comprising some of the most important new work on multimedia culture and history by key writers in this growing field, Multimedia Histories will be an indispensable new sourcebook for the discipline. It will be an important intervention in rethinking the boundaries of Anglo-American film and media history. |