Television before TV - New Media and Exhibition Culture in Europe and the USA, 1928-1939 (Hardcover)

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 offered spaces where television's symbolic, cultural, political, and social definitions were negotiated and eventually stabilized; 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, Television before TV finally emphasizes that even without regular programmes, interwar television was widely seen.

General

Imprint:	Amsterdam University Press
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Televisual Culture
Release date:	May 2022
Authors:	Anne-Katrin Weber
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 31mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	390
ISBN-13:	978-9463727815
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Television Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	9463727817
Barcode:	9789463727815

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