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The joy of sets : a short history of the television /

"It is a modern activity, one of the primary ways we consume information and entertainment, something we'll do over dinner, at a bar, or even standing on the street peering into a store window watch TV. Many of us spend countless hours in front of the tube, and even those of us who have pr...

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Main Author: Horrocks, Chris (Associate professor in art history), (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London, UK : Reaktion Books Ltd, 2018.
Subjects and Genres:
Television > History.
Television > Receivers and reception.
Télévision > Histoire.
Télévision > Récepteurs et réception.
television receivers.
HISTORY > Social History.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING.
Television.
Fernsehen
Fernsehempfänger.
Fernsehtechnik
Media Studies.
History.
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Table of Contents:
  • From fantasy to physics
  • Inventing television
  • Television at war
  • Consuming the receiver
  • Alien television
  • Space ship, black box, flat screen
  • Art against television.

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