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Author: Doron Galili
Publisher: Duke University Press
Imprint: Duke University Press
Weight: 0.522kg
ISBN: 9781478007722
ISBN 10: 1478007729
Pages: 277
Publication Date: 28 February 2020
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Assembling wonderful material and offering nuanced readings of both filmic and theoretical texts, Doron Galili makes important interventions in the ongoing debates over media specificity and television's historiography. He is part of a new generation of scholars who are helping to put television's complicated and often occluded genealogy into conversation with the latest media studies debates. A page-turner, Seeing by Electricity will resonate with a broad spectrum of readers. -- William Uricchio, Professor of Comparative Media Studies, MIT Digging into television's origins and discovering secret lineages and unexpected ancestors, Doron Galili unearths the true reasons that fiercely opposed-and indissolubly linked-television and cinema. A masterful contribution to media archeology. -- Francesco Casetti, author of * The Lumiere Galaxy: Seven Key Words for the Cinema to Come *
Seeing By Electricity ... historicizes a prolonged moment, or a mediascape, when boundaries between media were porous, whereas the otherwise antagonistic relationships between media can be seen as symbiotic. From this perspective, the book challenges a commonly accepted historical narrative, and suggests instead a more flexible and broader contextualization of radio, television, and film as mutually contributing networks. -- Rea Amit * Critical Inquiry * Assembling wonderful material and offering nuanced readings of both filmic and theoretical texts, Doron Galili makes important interventions in the ongoing debates over media specificity and television's historiography. He is part of a new generation of scholars who are helping to put television's complicated and often occluded genealogy into conversation with the latest media studies debates. A page-turner, Seeing by Electricity will resonate with a broad spectrum of readers. -- William Uricchio, Professor of Comparative Media Studies, MIT Digging into television's origins and discovering secret lineages and unexpected ancestors, Doron Galili unearths the true reasons that fiercely opposed-and indissolubly linked-television and cinema. A masterful contribution to media archeology. -- Francesco Casetti, author of * The Lumiere Galaxy: Seven Key Words for the Cinema to Come *
Author Information
Doron Galili is Researcher in the Department of Media Studies at Stockholm University and coeditor of Corporeality in Early Cinema: Viscera, Skin, and Physical Form.
