Picturing the postcard : a new media crisis at the turn of the century / Monica Cure.
Picturing the postcard : a new media crisis at the turn of the century / Monica Cure.
Picturing the postcard : a new media crisis at the turn of the century / Monica Cure.
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Publisher
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2018]
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G 2019/5006
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Language
English
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Physical content
253 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Introduction: the Frankenstein postcard -- 1. The economic postcard -- 2. Insincerely yours: the new postcard and the new woman -- 3. Return to sender: the postcard terror -- 4. The voracious postcard: the craze of collecting -- Postscript: rewriting the postcard.
Publication information
Publisher
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2018]
Place of Publication
Minnesota
Date Published
[2018]
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Summary
"The first full-length study of a once revolutionary visual and linguistic medium. Literature has "died" many times--this book tells the story of its death by postcard. Picturing the Postcard looks to this unlikely source to shed light on our collective, modern-day obsession with new media. The postcard, almost unimaginably now, produced at the end...
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Picturing the postcard : a new media crisis at the turn of the century / Monica Cure.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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©2018
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G 2019/5006
Record Identifier
74VKV5QlqzE3
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKV5QlqzE3
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ISBN
1517902797 paperback
9781517902780 hardcover
1517902789 hardcover
9781517902797 paperback
DDC
810.9357
MMS ID
991024271317402626
