Haunted Media: Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television
(Part of the Console-ing Passions: Television and Cultural Power Series)
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Book Overview
In Haunted Media Jeffrey Sconce examines American culture's persistent association of new electronic media-from the invention of the telegraph to the introduction of television and computers-with paranormal or spiritual phenomena. By offering a historical analysis of the relation between communication technologies, discourses of modernity, and metaphysical preoccupations, Sconce demonstrates how accounts of "electronic presence" have gradually...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0822325721
ISBN13:9780822325727
Release Date:August 2000
Publisher:Duke University Press
Length:272 Pages
Weight:1.08 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"
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Boy - oh Boy!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
Jeffrey Sconce shows us in this, his 23rd book, that he knows what writing is all about. Have a haunted television? Is your VCR possessed? Sconce tells you what to do with easy to use instructions on getting the ghost out of your media related appliances. With stories from people around the world who have been haunted by ghostly media (including one story from a woman who was nearly strangled by her radio, possessed by a dead killer's ghostly hand) with survival tips on how to keep your tv ghost free. I'm sure I'll never have problems with spectres in my DVD player again! Thank you Mr. Sconce!
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