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oapen-20.500.12657-542502022-05-03T03:06:40Z Television before TV Weber, Anne-Katrin Television History, New Media, Exhibition Studies bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AG Art treatments & subjects::AGC Exhibition catalogues & specific collections bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AC History of art / art & design styles bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFD Media studies 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 were central to television’s social construction; 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, Weber finally emphasizes that even without regular programmes, interwar television was widely seen. 2022-05-02T09:35:45Z 2022-05-02T09:35:45Z 2022 book ONIX_20220502_9789048544813_16 9789048544813 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/54250 eng Televisual Culture application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9789048544813.pdf Amsterdam University Press Amsterdam University Press 10.5117/9789463727815 10.5117/9789463727815 dd3d1a33-0ac2-4cfe-a101-355ae1bd857a 9789048544813 Amsterdam University Press 356 open access
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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 were central to television’s social construction; 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, Weber finally emphasizes that even without regular programmes, interwar television was widely seen.
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