Remote Control: Object Lessons - Softcover

Benson-Allott, Caetlin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1623563119 ISBN 13: 9781623563110

Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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A material, literary, and cultural exploration of how the remote control, a seemingly innocuous media accessory, impacts our perception and world-view.

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Caetlin Benson-Allott is Associate Professor of English at Georgetown University. She is the author of Killer Tapes and Shattered Screens: Video Spectatorship from VHS to File Sharing (2013) and of a column on film and new media in Film Quarterly.

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While we all use remote controls, we understand little about their history or their impact on our daily lives. Caetlin Benson-Allot looks back on the remote control's material and cultural history to explain how such an innocuous media accessory has changed the way we occupy our houses, interact with our families, and experience the world. From the first wired radio remotes of the 1920s to infrared universal remotes, from the homemade TV controllers to the Apple Remote, remote controls shape our media devices and how we live with them.

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• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1623563119
• ISBN 13: 9781623563110
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 184
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: EDITIONS GALLIMARD; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8.; Assago Milano; 20090; Italien