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Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Foreword by Laura Mulvey

Introduction: James Lyons and John Plunkett

Section One: Culture, Aesthetics and the Influence of New Media

Chapter 1: Toys, Instruments, Machines: Why the Hardware Matters

Chapter 2: ‘The suppleness of everyday life’: CGI, the Lumières, and Perception after Photography

Chapter 3: ‘Wouldn’t you rather be at home?’ Electronic Media and the Anti-Urban Impulse

Chapter 4: Breaking the Time Barrier with John Cage

Section Two: Exploring Remediation: Old Formats into New

Chapter 5: From the Album Page to the Computer Screen: Collecting Photographs at Home

Chapter 6: The Return of Curiosity: The World Wide Web as Curiosity Museum

Chapter 7: From Android to Synthespian: The Performance of Artificial Life

Chapter 8: As Seen on TV: Kinaesthetic Crossover and the Animation of Social Dance Pedagogy

Section Three: Media Consumption and Interactivity

Chapter 9: Depth, Colour, Movement: Embodied Vision and the Stereoscope

Chapter 10: Penny Gaffs and Picture Theatres: Popular Perceptions of Britain’s First Cinemas

Chapter 11: From Museum to Interactive Television: Organizing the Navigable Space of Natural-History Display

Chapter 12: Imaginary Spaces: User Participation in Networked Narrative Environments

Section Four: Visions of Convergence: Bringing Media Together

Chapter 13: ‘The Lady of Shalott’: Optical Elegy

Chapter 14: Photographed Tableaux and Motion-Picture Aesthetics: Alexander Black’s Picture Plays

Chapter 15: DVDs, Video Games and the Cinema of Interactions

Chapter 16: From ‘Nip/Tuck’ to Cut/Paste: Remediating Cosmetic Surgery

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