Multimedia 1900: Experience and Entertainment in Everyday Life
- Synopsis
- We know a great deal about media gadgetry in retrospect, but much less about how it was perceived and experienced by early users. Historians at the end of the 19th century have traditionally paid little attention to ‘new media’ experiences, even though media historians would claim that this was the moment when the new media of communication and entertainment were already exercising their fascination. In this lecture Professor of History of Film and Media Ian Christie imagines a ‘day in the life’ of some Londoners in 1900 and shares what he finds.[53 minutes]
Extra Lecture materials:
PDF Transcript
PDF Presentation - Series
- Living Through a Media Revolution
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Year of production
- 2017
- Subjects
- Film studies; History
- Keywords
- visual illusion; Film history; visual culture; 1900s
Online availability
- URI
- https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/multimedia-1900-experience-and-entertainment-in-everyday-life
- Delivery
- Streamed/Download
Credits
- Contributor
- Ian Christie
Distributor
- Name
Gresham College
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- Web
- http://www.gresham.ac.uk/ External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 020 7831 0575
- Fax
- 020 7831 5208
- Address
- Barnard’s Inn Hall
Holborn
London EC1N 2HH
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