Seeing by Electricity: The Emergence of Television, 1878-1939. Photo: Duke University Press
PUBLISHED: October 21, 2020
UPDATED: October 23, 2020
Audio: Galili interviewed on his new book in podcast New Books in Technology
"What I explore in the book is rather the history of television prior to its deployment as a mass medium. I looked into the earliest stages of the history of television, starting in the late nineteenth century with the first ideas regarding electrical technologies of 'seeing by electricity,' through the period of technological experimentation with television, and ending with he beginning of the first television broadcast services in the 1930s", Galili told Jenkins in an interview for his blog Confessions of an ACA-fan.
Read the full interview Part I and Part II
| Doron Galili is a research fellow at the Department of Media Studies at Stockholm University. He is the author of Seeing by Electricity: The Emergence of Television, 1878-1939 (Duke University Press, 2020) and coeditor of Corporeality in Early Cinema: Viscera, Skin, and Physical Form (Indiana University Press, 2018). He holds a PhD in Cinema and Media Studies from the University of Chicago and has previously taught at Oberlin College. |
| Read the full report from the international conference Media Matter: Media-Archaeological Research and Artistic Practice in Stockholm on November 27-29, 2019. |
