Optical MediaISBN: 978-0-7456-4091-4
Paperback
332 pages
December 2009, Polity
Other Available Formats: Hardcover
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- Friedrich Kittler is a leading scholar of media history in Germany
- This accessible study is based on his lectures on the history of optical media in 1999 at Humboldt University, Berlin
- The broad-ranging history of optical media examines a variety of examples such as European painting and the invention of the camera obscura
- As one of the most important and interesting German theorists, Kittler already has a good following but this will also appeal to all students in media, cultural and literature studies