Haunted Media - Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television

"Death, desire and distance are Jeffrey Sconce's companions in this truly spooky journey through the 'troubling afterlife of modernity.' His brilliant and beautifully written history of the uncanny powers ascribed to the electronic media is a wonderful catalogue of popular fantasies. But more profoundly it is a symptomatology of media theory too. In fact and fiction alike we are caught up in wild imaginings that seek transcendance in transmission, from the ether to the Internet. Where redemption is sought from the 'liveness' of technology, Sconce advises caution. Or, as one of the quirky spirits he unearths implores via radio, 'bring a halibut!' "--John Hartley, Queensland University of Technology

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Jeffrey Sconce

Summary

Examines American culture's persistent association of electronic media - from the invention of the telegraph to the introduction of television and computers - with paranormal or spiritual phenomena.

Product details

• Authors: Jeffrey Sconce, Sconce, Jeffrey Sconce
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.08.2000
• EAN: 9780822325536
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2553-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 244 mm x 26 mm
• Weight: 635 g
• Series: Console-ing Passions; Console-Ing Passions: Televisi; Console-ing Passions
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; Unerklärliche Phänomene, Übernatürliches