Cinema and Wireless in Turn of the Century Popular Imagination

Historians Of Early cinema and electronic media have long operated in mutual isolation, drawing upon quite distinct historiographic assumptions, methods, and research materials. This isolation is remarkable, not only given the historical coincidence of the technological development of both cinema and the wireless at the end of the nineteenth century, but also in light of the ways in which popular responses to the anticipation and early experience of both media speak to a common set of cultural anxieties and ambitions.

Aesthetics · Anticipation (artificial intelligence) · Art · Art history · Isolation (microbiology) · Movie theater · Cinema and Media Studies · Computer Science · History