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Chris Horrocks, “The Joy of Sets: A Short History of the Television” (Reaktion Press, 2017)
Chris Horrocks, “The Joy of Sets: A Short History of the Television” (Reaktion Press, 2017)
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39 minutes
Released:
Nov 8, 2018
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Podcast episode
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Television started as a dream of nineteenth-century science fiction. It took its place in the twentieth-century home, and became a fixture of family life and a transformative cultural force. Today, televisions are both less visible and more present than ever, thanks to screens on our walls and in our pockets. Chris Horrocks traces the cultural history of the television set in The Joy of Sets: A Short History of the Television (Reaktion Press, 2017). Horrocks is a filmmaker and professor in the School of Critical Studies and Creative Industries at Kingston University in London. His previous books include Cultures of Colour: Visual, Material, Textual (Berghahn, 2012), and Marshall McLuhan and Virtuality (Icon, 2000).Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Released:
Nov 8, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
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