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Doron Galili traces television's early history, from the fantastical devices initially imagined fifty years before the first television prototypes to the emergence of broadcast television in the 1930s, showing how television was always discussed and treated in relation to cinema.
List 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
About the author
Doron Galili is Researcher in the Department of Media Studies at Stockholm University and coeditor of
Corporeality in Early Cinema: Viscera, Skin, and Physical Form.
Summary
Doron Galili traces television's early history, from the fantastical devices initially imagined fifty years before the first television prototypes to the emergence of broadcast television in the 1930s, showing how television was always discussed and treated in relation to cinema.
