Television before TV

Anne-Katrin Weber is a television historian with a special interest in non-institutional televisual uses and technologies. Her work is at the intersection of media history and archaeology, science and technology studies, and exhibition studies. She holds a PhD from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and is currently a NOMIS Fellow at eikones. Centre for the Theory and History of the Image (University of Basel). Her research has been published in English and French; she has edited several journal issues and volumes.

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Introduction: Interwar Television on Display
1. Television Display in Context
2. Spectacularizing Television, or Making Sense of Novelty
3. Locating Television Between Imaginaries and Materialities
Intermission I: Four Dispositifs of Interwar Television
4. Nationalizing Television in a Transnational Context
Intermission II: Travelling Exhibits
5. Domesticating Television Outside the Home
6. Gendering Television On and Off Screen
Intermission III: Similar Sets, Same TV?
Epilogue: Television Experiments, Past and Present

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