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Television as new media: Raymond-Millet’s TÉLÉVISION: OEIL DE DEMAIN (1947) and the politics of French experimental TV

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This paper analyses the meaning of newness in television history by focusing on the French film Télévision: Oeil de demain (J. K. Raymond-Millet, 1947). It argues that the film’s futurist depiction of television veils the medium’s longue durée, and exemplifies a discursive strategy to conceal most recent technological and institutional developments, in particular those linking French television to National-Socialist occupation. The novelty discourse is instrumental to mask the many continuities between the National-Socialist Fernsehsender Paris and postwar French television, and helps to conceive of television as new media unburdened by recent history.


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Weber, Anne-Katrin: Television as new media: Raymond-Millet’s TÉLÉVISION: OEIL DE DEMAIN (1947) and the politics of French experimental TV. In: NECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies, Jg. 8 (2019), Nr. 1, S. 69-89. DOI: 10.25969/mediarep/4188.
@ARTICLE{Weber2019,
 author = {Weber, Anne-Katrin},
 title = {Television as new media: Raymond-Millet’s TÉLÉVISION: OEIL DE DEMAIN (1947) and the politics of French experimental TV},
 year = 2019,
 doi = {10.25969/mediarep/4188},
 volume = 8,
 address = {Amsterdam},
 journal = {NECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies},
 number = 1,
 pages = {69--89},
}
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