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dc.contributor.authorWeber, Anne-Katrin
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-02T09:35:45Z
dc.date.available2022-05-02T09:35:45Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifierONIX_20220502_9789048544813_16
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/54250
dc.description.abstractTelevision 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesTelevisual Culture
dc.subject.otherTelevision History, New Media, Exhibition Studies
dc.titleTelevision before TV
dc.title.alternativeNew Media and Exhibition Culture in Europe and the USA, 1928-1939
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.5117/9789463727815
oapen.relation.isPublishedBydd3d1a33-0ac2-4cfe-a101-355ae1bd857a
oapen.relation.isFundedBy07f61e34-5b96-49f0-9860-c87dd8228f26*
oapen.relation.isbn9789048544813
oapen.collectionSwiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
oapen.imprintAmsterdam University Press
oapen.pages356
oapen.grant.number10BP12_199090
oapen.grant.programOpen Access Books
oapen.grant.projectInterwar Television on Display. New Media and Exhibition Culture in Europe and the United States, 1928-1939


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