Multimedia Histories

From Magic Lanterns to Internet

By: James Lyons, John Plunkett

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Paperback | 16 March 2007 | Edition Number 2

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Multimedia Histories: From the Magic Lantern to the Internet is the first book to explore in detail the vital connections between today's digital culture and an absorbing history of screen entertainments and technologies. Its range of coverage moves from the magic lantern, the stereoscope and early film to the DVD and the internet.

By reaching back into the innovative media practices of the nineteenth century, Multimedia Histories outlines many of the revealing continuities between nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century multimedia culture. Comprising some of the most important new work on multimedia culture and history by key writers in this growing field, Multimedia Histories will be an indispensable new sourcebook for the discipline. It will be an important intervention in rethinking the boundaries of Anglo-American film and media history.

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List of Figures	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. x
Notes on Contributors	p. xi
Foreword	p. xv
Introduction	p. xvii
Culture, Aesthetics and the Influence of New Media
Toys, Instruments, Machines: Why the Hardware Matters	p. 3
'The suppleness of everyday life': CGI, the Lumieres, and Perception after Photography	p. 18
Wouldn't you rather be at home?' Electronic Media and the Anti-Urban Impulse	p. 31
Breaking the Time Barrier with John Cage	p. 43
Exploring Remediation: Old Formats into New
From the Album Page to the Computer Screen: Collecting Photographs at Home	p. 57
The Return of Curiosity: The World Wide Web as Curiosity Museum	p. 72
From Android to Synthespian: The Performance of Artificial Life	p. 85
As Seen on TV: Kinaesthetic Crossover and the Animation of Social Dance Pedagogy	p. 98
Media Consumption and Interactivity
Depth, Colour, Movement: Embodied Vision and the Stereoscope	p. 117
Penny Gaffs and Picture Theatres: Popular Perceptions of Britain's First Cinemas	p. 132
From Museum to Interactive Television: Organizing the Navigable Space of Natural-History Display	p. 148
Imaginary Spaces: User Participation in Networked Narrative Environments	p. 163
Visions of Convergence: Bringing Media Together
'The Lady of Shalott': Optical Elegy	p. 179
Photographed Tableaux and Motion-Picture Aesthetics: Alexander Black's Picture Plays	p. 194
DVDs, Video Games and the Cinema of Interactions	p. 209
From 'Nip/Tuck' to Cut/Paste: Remediating Cosmetic Surgery	p. 222
Notes	p. 235
Index	p. 269
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