Andre Millard
Biographic Data
| ID | 3786197 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andre Millard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andre |
| FAMILY NAME | Millard |
| SIGNATURE | MILLARD A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alabama at Birmingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
James Bond and the End of the World
This article explores Ian Fleming’s fluctuating views on technology and his disillusionment with scientific work following the Second World War. Focusing on the James Bond novels, in which Fleming nursed his fears of a post-Cold War, dystopian future, it configures Bond himself as a cypher for human agency in negotiating the technological changes of the twentieth century – a triumphant symbol of Fleming’s belief in the ingenuity of the individual…
Susan Schmidt Horning. Chasing Sound
The hundred years after Thomas Edison invented the phonograph marked the rapid advance of sound recording technology and the creation of a new type of workplace to exploit these technologies. This book chronicles the history of the recording studio from its earliest incarnation in Edison's laboratory to the modern, multi-track studio with all the electronic facilities to create sound rather than just save it. Susan Schmidt Horning presents not on…
Widescreen Worldwide (review)
Reviewed by: Widescreen Worldwide Andre Millard (bio) Widescreen Worldwide. Edited by John Belton, Sheldon Hall, and Steve Neale. New Barnet, UK: John Libbey Publishing, 2010. Pp. vi+236. $34.95. When the Cinerama widescreen process was introduced in 1952, the film industry was losing customers fast and was fearful of the challenge of television. Brightly colored films projected on very large screens and accompanied by stereophonic sound were int…
Walt Disney
Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines
Journal Article Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines: Representing Technology in the Edison Era. By Lisa Gitelman. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. xiv, 282 pp. Cloth, $49.50, ISBN 0-8047-3270-1. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8047-3872-6.) Get access Andre Millard Andre Millard University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 2, S…
Stage to Studio
Thomas Edison's inventions, so successful commercially, altered the lives of all Americans in the twentieth century. Among those persons most directly affected were artists in the entertainment industry. In this groundbreaking study of musicians and the businesses of recording, broadcasting, and film, James P. Kraft shows how musicians adapted - or tried to adapt - to momentous change and the emerging nexus of corporate power, labor-union muscle,…
The Papers of Thomas A. Edison. Vol. 3, Menlo Park
America on Record
Journal Article America on Record: A History of Recorded Sound. By Andre Millard. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. x, 413 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-521-47544-9. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-521-47556-2.) Get access Brian Ward Brian Ward University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 4, March 1997, Pages 1420…
Edison's Miracle of Light
Journal Article Edison s Miracle of Light. Prod. by Matthew Collins. Elevator Pictures, 1995. 58 mins. (PBS Video, 1320 Braddock Pl., Alexandria, VA 22314-1698) Get access Andre Millard Andre Millard University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 3, December 1997, Pages 1166–1167, https://doi.org/10.2307/2953253 Published: 01 Decembe…
America on Record
Before the Nickelodeon
Before the Nickelodeon
166 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Before the Nickelodeon: Edwin S. Porter and the Edison Manufacturing Company. By Charles Musser. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991. Pp. xii + 591; illustrations, notes, appen dixes, indexes. $60.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper). The history of early film, stretching from Edison’s introduction of the kinetoscope to the rise of the Nickelodeon theaters, has often been depicted as a ser…
Edison and the Business of Innovation
Journal Article Edison and the Business of Innovation. By Andre Millard. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. xvi + 387 pp. $38.50.) Get access Wyn Wachhorst Wyn Wachhorst Atherton, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 1, June 1991, Page 354, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078193 Published: 01 June 1991
Edison and the Business of Innovation
Electrical Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Edison and the Business of Innovation
Journal Article Edison and the Business of Innovation. By Andre Millard. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. xvi + 387 pp. $38.50.) Get access Wyn Wachhorst Wyn Wachhorst Atherton, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 1, June 1991, Page 354, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078193 Published: 01 June 1991
Edison and the Business of Innovation
Before the Nickelodeon
Before the Nickelodeon
166 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Before the Nickelodeon: Edwin S. Porter and the Edison Manufacturing Company. By Charles Musser. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991. Pp. xii + 591; illustrations, notes, appen dixes, indexes. $60.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper). The history of early film, stretching from Edison’s introduction of the kinetoscope to the rise of the Nickelodeon theaters, has often been depicted as a ser…
The Papers of Thomas A. Edison. Vol. 3, Menlo Park
America on Record
Journal Article America on Record: A History of Recorded Sound. By Andre Millard. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. x, 413 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-521-47544-9. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-521-47556-2.) Get access Brian Ward Brian Ward University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 4, March 1997, Pages 1420…
Edison's Miracle of Light
Journal Article Edison s Miracle of Light. Prod. by Matthew Collins. Elevator Pictures, 1995. 58 mins. (PBS Video, 1320 Braddock Pl., Alexandria, VA 22314-1698) Get access Andre Millard Andre Millard University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 3, December 1997, Pages 1166–1167, https://doi.org/10.2307/2953253 Published: 01 Decembe…
America on Record
Stage to Studio
Thomas Edison's inventions, so successful commercially, altered the lives of all Americans in the twentieth century. Among those persons most directly affected were artists in the entertainment industry. In this groundbreaking study of musicians and the businesses of recording, broadcasting, and film, James P. Kraft shows how musicians adapted - or tried to adapt - to momentous change and the emerging nexus of corporate power, labor-union muscle,…
Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines
Journal Article Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines: Representing Technology in the Edison Era. By Lisa Gitelman. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. xiv, 282 pp. Cloth, $49.50, ISBN 0-8047-3270-1. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8047-3872-6.) Get access Andre Millard Andre Millard University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 2, S…
Walt Disney
Widescreen Worldwide (review)
Reviewed by: Widescreen Worldwide Andre Millard (bio) Widescreen Worldwide. Edited by John Belton, Sheldon Hall, and Steve Neale. New Barnet, UK: John Libbey Publishing, 2010. Pp. vi+236. $34.95. When the Cinerama widescreen process was introduced in 1952, the film industry was losing customers fast and was fearful of the challenge of television. Brightly colored films projected on very large screens and accompanied by stereophonic sound were int…
Susan Schmidt Horning. Chasing Sound
The hundred years after Thomas Edison invented the phonograph marked the rapid advance of sound recording technology and the creation of a new type of workplace to exploit these technologies. This book chronicles the history of the recording studio from its earliest incarnation in Edison's laboratory to the modern, multi-track studio with all the electronic facilities to create sound rather than just save it. Susan Schmidt Horning presents not on…
James Bond and the End of the World
This article explores Ian Fleming’s fluctuating views on technology and his disillusionment with scientific work following the Second World War. Focusing on the James Bond novels, in which Fleming nursed his fears of a post-Cold War, dystopian future, it configures Bond himself as a cypher for human agency in negotiating the technological changes of the twentieth century – a triumphant symbol of Fleming’s belief in the ingenuity of the individual…
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