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Informationen zum Autor Anne-Katrin Weber is a television historian with a special interest in non-institutional televisual uses and technologies. Her work is at the intersection of media history and archaeology, science and technology studies, and exhibition studies. She holds a PhD from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and is currently a NOMIS Fellow at eikones. Centre for the Theory and History of the Image (University of Basel). Her research has been published in English and French; she has edited several journal issues and volumes. Klappentext This book 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements, List of Illustrations, List of Abbreviations, Introduction: Interwar Television on Display, 1. Television Display in Context, 2. Spectacularizing Television, or Making Sense of Novelty, 3. Locating Television Between Imaginaries and Materialities, Intermission I: Four Dispositifs of Interwar Television, 4. Nationalizing Television in a Transnational Context, Intermission II: Travelling Exhibits, 5. Domesticating Television Outside the Home, 6. Gendering Television On and Off Screen, Intermission III: Similar Sets, Same TV?, Epilogue: Television Experiments, Past and Present, Full Bibliography, Index
