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> MULTIMEDIA HISTORIES CONFERENCE
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> University of Exeter, 21-23 July 2003
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> Organised by AHRB Centre for British Film and Television
> Studies and University of Exeter.
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> www.bftv.ac.uk
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> One of the most dominant critical concerns of recent years
> has been the attempt to understand the impact of a
> multimedia culture. The scope and limits of a multimedia
> culture have become associated with issues of virtual
> reality; interactivity; media convergence and hybridity;
> body/technology couplings, etc. These familiar narratives,
> however, have a much more extended history than is often
> realised.
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> Multimedia Histories will examine the long genealogy of
> multimedia usage and discourse. From the 19th C onwards,
> the proliferation of screen technologies and optical
> recreations has been an important element of popular
> culture. Moreover, the exhibition and consumption of these
> entertainments was often defined by their
> interrelationship. The mid nineteenth-century drawing room,
> for example, typically included stereoscopes and
> praxinoscopes alongside the magic lantern.
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> The conference is keen to pursue a comparative approach by
> focusing on specific historical moments of convergence and
> hybridity. In so doing, it aims to locate the aesthetics of
> the new media in relation to an intermedial tradition of
> public and domestic forms of screen entertainment. The
> principal question it hopes to address is this - to what
> extent do recent multimedia technologies extend established
> features of cinema, television, and the panoply 19th C and
> 20th C optical recreations?
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> Further details are available at the AHRB Centre's
> website:
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> www.bftv.ac.uk
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> AHRB Centre for British Film & Television Studies
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