Seeing by Electricity
Seeing by Electricity Already in the late nineteenth century, electricians, physicists, and telegraph technicians dreamed of inventing televisual communication apparatuses that would "see" by…
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Seeing by Electricity
Already in the late nineteenth century, electricians, physicists, and telegraph technicians dreamed of inventing televisual communication apparatuses that would "see" by electricity as a means of extending human perception. Galili examines how televisual technologies were understood in relation to film at different cultural moments--whether as a perfection of cinema, a threat to the Hollywood industry, or an alternative medium for avant-garde experimentation. In Seeing by Electricity Doron Galili traces the early history of television, from fantastical image transmission devices initially imagined in the 1870s such as the Telectroscope, the Phantoscope, and the Distant Seer to the emergence of broadcast television in the 1930s.
Highlighting points of overlap and divergence in the histories of television and cinema, Galili demonstrates that the intermedial relationship between the