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.
James Lyonsis Senior Lecturer in Film Studies in the School of English at Exeter University; he is author ofSelling Seattle: Representing Contemporary Urban America(2004) and co-editor ofQuality Popular Television(2003).
John Plunkettis Senior Lecturer in Victorian Literature in the School of English at Exeter University; he is author ofQueen Victoria: First Media Monarch(2003) and editor (with Andrew King) ofPopular Print Media 1820-1900(2004 andVictorian Print Media: A Reader(2005).
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Foreword byLaura Mulvey
Introduction:James Lyons and John Plunkett
Section One: Culture, Aesthetics and the Influence of New Media
1. Toys, Instruments, Machines: Why the Hardware Matters
Ian Christie
2. 'The suppleness of everyday life': CGI, the Lumières, lƒ%
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