Visions of electric media: television in the Victorian and machine ages

Wyver, J. 2021. Visions of electric media: television in the Victorian and machine ages. Early Popular Visual Culture. 19 (1), pp. 91-92. https://doi.org/10.1080/17460654.2020.1863272

TitleVisions of electric media: television in the Victorian and machine ages
TypeBook review
AuthorsWyver, J.
Abstract

Book review of 'Visions of electric media: television in the Victorian and machine ages', by Ivy Roberts, Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2019, 286 pp., ISBN: 978 94 6298 659 6

Keywordstelevision history
media archaeology
JournalEarly Popular Visual Culture
Journal citation19 (1), pp. 91-92
ISSN1746-0654
1746-0662
Year2021
PublisherTaylor & Francis
Accepted author manuscript
License
All rights reserved
File Access Level
Open (open metadata and files)
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1080/17460654.2020.1863272
Web address (URL)https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17460654.2020.1863272
Publication dates
Published online20 Dec 2020
Published in print2021

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