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OverviewAlready in the late nineteenth century, electricians, physicists, and telegraph technicians dreamed of inventing televisual communication apparatuses that would ""see"" by electricity as a means of extending human perception. In Seeing by Electricity Doron Galili traces the early history of television, from fantastical image transmission devices initially imagined in the 1870s such as the Telectroscope, the Phantoscope, and the Distant Seer to the emergence of broadcast television in the 1930s. Galili examines how televisual technologies were understood in relation to film at different cultural moments-whether as a perfection of cinema, a threat to the Hollywood industry, or an alternative medium for avant-garde experimentation. Highlighting points of overlap and divergence in the histories of television and cinema, Galili demonstrates that the intermedial relationship between the two media did not start with their economic and institutional rivalry of the late 1940s but rather goes back to their very origins. In so doing, he brings film studies and television studies together in ways that advance contemporary debates in media theory. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Doron GaliliPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Weight: 0.386kg ISBN: 9781478008224ISBN 10: 1478008229 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 28 February 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I. Archaeologies of Moving Image Transmission 1. Ancient Affiliates: The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Cinema and Television 17 2. Severed Eyeballs and Prolonged Optic Nerves: Television as Modern Prosthetic Vision 50 3. Happy Combinations of Electricity and Photography: Moving Image Transmission in the Early Cinema Era 74 Part II. Debating the Specificity of Television, On- and Off-Screen 4. Cinema's Radio Double: Hollywood Comes to Terms with Television 105 5. ""We Must Prepare!"": Dziga Vertov and the Avant-Garde Reception of Television 145 6. Thinking across Media: Classical Film Theory's Encounter with Television 167 Conclusion 184 Notes 189 Bibliography 221 Index 239"ReviewsAssembling wonderful material and offering nuanced readings of both filmic and theoretical texts, Doron Galili makes important interventions in the ongoing debates over media specificity and television's historiography. He is part of a new generation of scholars who are helping to put television's complicated and often occluded genealogy into conversation with the latest media studies debates. A page-turner, Seeing by Electricity will resonate with a broad spectrum of readers. -- William Uricchio, Professor of Comparative Media Studies, MIT Digging into television's origins and discovering secret lineages and unexpected ancestors, Doron Galili unearths the true reasons that fiercely opposed-and indissolubly linked-television and cinema. A masterful contribution to media archeology. -- Francesco Casetti, author of * The Lumiere Galaxy: Seven Key Words for the Cinema to Come * Seeing By Electricity ... historicizes a prolonged moment, or a mediascape, when boundaries between media were porous, whereas the otherwise antagonistic relationships between media can be seen as symbiotic. From this perspective, the book challenges a commonly accepted historical narrative, and suggests instead a more flexible and broader contextualization of radio, television, and film as mutually contributing networks. -- Rea Amit * Critical Inquiry * Assembling wonderful material and offering nuanced readings of both filmic and theoretical texts, Doron Galili makes important interventions in the ongoing debates over media specificity and television's historiography. He is part of a new generation of scholars who are helping to put television's complicated and often occluded genealogy into conversation with the latest media studies debates. A page-turner, Seeing by Electricity will resonate with a broad spectrum of readers. -- William Uricchio, Professor of Comparative Media Studies, MIT Digging into television's origins and discovering secret lineages and unexpected ancestors, Doron Galili unearths the true reasons that fiercely opposed-and indissolubly linked-television and cinema. A masterful contribution to media archeology. -- Francesco Casetti, author of * The Lumiere Galaxy: Seven Key Words for the Cinema to Come * Author InformationDoron Galili is Researcher in the Department of Media Studies at Stockholm University and coeditor of Corporeality in Early Cinema: Viscera, Skin, and Physical Form. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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