Multimedia Histories: From the Magic Lantern to the Internet

Multimedia Histories: From the Magic Lantern to the Internet is the first book to explore in detail the vital connections between today’s digital culture and an absorbing history of screen entertainments and technologies. Its range of coverage moves from the magic lantern, the stereoscope and early film to the DVD and the internet.

 

By reaching back into the innovative media practices of the nineteenth century, Multimedia Histories outlines many of the revealing continuities between nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century multimedia culture. Comprising some of the most important new work on multimedia culture and history by key writers in this growing field, Multimedia Histories will be an indispensable new sourcebook for the discipline. It will be an important intervention in rethinking the boundaries of Anglo-American film and media history.

James Lyons is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies in the School of English at Exeter University; he is author of Selling Seattle: Representing Contemporary Urban America (2004) and co-editor of Quality Popular Television (2003).

 

John Plunkett is Senior Lecturer in Victorian Literature in the School of English at Exeter University; he is author of Queen Victoria: First Media Monarch (2003) and editor (with Andrew King) of Popular Print Media 1820-1900 (2004 and Victorian Print Media: A Reader (2005).