Weber, Anne-Katrin2019-08-162019-08-162019https://necsus-ejms.org/television-as-new-media-raymond-millets-television-oeil-de-demain-1947-and-the-politics-of-french-experimental-tv/https://mediarep.org/handle/doc/4953This 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.engFranceimaginary medianew mediatelevision historyFrankreichNeue MedienFernsehgeschichte791J. K. Raymond-Millet10.25969/mediarep/41882213-0217