Multimedia histories
Subtitle: from the magic lantern to the internet
By: edited by James Lyons and John Plunkett.
Contributors: Lyons, James, 1972-; Plunkett, John, 1974-
Series: Exeter studies in film history
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Exeter
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780859897730
Subjects: Mass media and technology -- History.; Digital media.; Mass media and culture -- History.; Cinematography -- History.; Motion pictures -- History.; Digital cinematography.; Projectors -- History.; Visual sociology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Laura Mulvey; title: Introduction / James Lyons and John Plunkett; title: Sect. 1. Culture, aesthetics and the influence of new media; title: Toys, instruments, machines : why the hardware matters / Ian Christie; title: 'The suppleness of everyday life' : CGI, the lumiéres, and perception after photography / Damian Sutton; title: 'Wouldn't you rather be at home?' : electronic media and the anti-urban impulse / William Boddy; title: Breaking the time barrier with John Cage / Charlie Gere; title: Sect. 2. Exploring remediation : old formats into new; title: From the album page to the computer screen : collecting photographs at home / Patrizia Di Bello; title: The return of curiosity : the world wide web as curiosity museum / Michelle Henning; title: From android to synthespian : the performance of artificial life / Dan North; title: As seen on TV : kinaesthetic crossover and the animation of social dance pedagogy / Jonathan Bollen; title: Sect. 3. Media consumption and interactivity; title: Depth, colour, movement : embodied vision and the stereoscope / John Plunkett; title: Penny Gaffs and picture theatres : popular perceptions of Britain's first cinemas / Andrew Shail; title: From museum to interactive television : organizing the navigable space of natural-history display / James Bennett; title: Imaginary spaces : user participation in networked narrative environments / Andrea Zapp; title: Sect. 4. Visions of convergence : bringing media together; title: 'The lady of shalott' : optical elegy / Isabel Armstrong; title: Photographed tableaux and motion-picture aesthetics : Alexander Black's picture plays / Kaveh Askari; title: DVDs, video games and the cinema of interactions / Richard Grusin; title: From 'Nip/tuck' to cut/paste : remediating