Sublime communication technologies / Rod Giblett.
Sublime communication technologies / Rod Giblett.
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Publisher
Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, c2008.
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N384.09/8
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English
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Physical content
xiv, 218 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents
1. Flow Along a Channel: Communication and Its Technologies -- 2. Crude Conqueror of Nature: Steam Railways -- 3. Mind Over Matter: Electrical Telegraphy -- 4. Shooting the Event: The Camera is a Gun, Photography is a Shot -- 5. The Hell of Images: Cinema Paradiso -- 6. Magician's Bower and Monstrou...
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Publisher
Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, c2008.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
c2008.
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Summary
"Communication technologies play a pivotal role in modern life Sublime Communication Technologies is a critical cultural history of communication technologies, form railways and telegraphy through photography, cinema, cars, radio, television and satellites to computers and the Internet. These technologies are sublime in the sense that they carry in...
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Sublime communication technologies / Rod Giblett.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c2008.
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N384.09/8
Record Identifier
74VK3N3pV2dg
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK3N3pV2dg
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ISBN
9780230537439 (hbk.) :
023053743X (hbk.) :
DDC
384.09
MMS ID
991023840579702626
