Television before TV

Anne-Katrin Weber is a television historian with a special interest in non-institutional televisual uses and technologies. Her work is at the intersection of media history and archaeology, science and technology studies, and exhibition studies. She holds a PhD from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and is currently a NOMIS Fellow at eikones. Centre for the Theory and History of the Image (University of Basel). Her research has been published in English and French; she has edited several journal issues and volumes.

• Acknowledgements, List of Illustrations, List of Abbreviations, Introduction: Interwar Television on Display, 1. Television Display in Context, 2. Spectacularizing Television, or Making Sense of Novelty, 3. Locating Television Between Imaginaries and Materialities, Intermission I: Four Dispositifs of Interwar Television, 4. Nationalizing Television in a Transnational Context, Intermission II: Travelling Exhibits, 5. Domesticating Television Outside the Home, 6. Gendering Television On and Off Screen, Intermission III: Similar Sets, Same TV?, Epilogue: Television Experiments, Past and Present, Full Bibliography, Index