Multimedia Histories: From the Magic Lantern to the Internet (Exeter Studies in Film History): From Magic Lanterns to Internet - Hardcover

James Lyons And John Plunkett

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0859897729 ISBN 13: 9780859897723

Publisher: University of Exeter Press, 2007

Synopsis

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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About the Author

James Lyons is Lecturer in Film Studies in the School of English at Exeter University; he is author of Selling Seattle: Representing Contemporary Urban America (Wallflower Press, 2004) and co-editor of Quality Popular Television (BFI, 2003). John Plunkett is Lecturer in Victorian Literature in the School of English at Exeter University; he is author of Queen Victoria: First Media Monarch (OUP, 2003) and editor (with Andrew King) of Popular Print Media 1820-1900 (Routledge, 2004) and Victorian Print Media: A Reader (OUP, 2005).

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Exeter Press
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0859897729
• ISBN 13: 9780859897723
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: James Lyons, John Plunkett