Playful visions : optical toys and the emergence of children's media culture / Meredith A. Bak.
By: Bak, Meredith A [author.]
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Contributor(s): IEEE Xplore (Online Service) [distributor.] | MIT Press [publisher.].
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BookPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2020]Distributor: [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : IEEE Xplore, [2020]Description: 1 PDF (xi, 276 pages) : illustrations.Content type: text Media type: electronic Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780262358040.Subject(s): 1800-1899 | Toys -- History -- 19th century | Children's mass media -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books. | History.Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification: 688.7/2 Online resources: Abstract with links to resource Also available in print.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the Ludic archive -- Templates, toys, and text : optical toys in nineteenth-century children's culture -- Language in motion : the thaumatrope establishes a multimedia convention -- Seeing things : optical play at home -- Movable toy books and the culture of independent play -- Color education : from the chaotic kaleidoscope to the orderly spectrum -- Democracy and discipline : object lessons and the stereoscope in American education, 1870-1920 -- Conclusion: oversized optics in the digital age.
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The kaleidoscope, the stereoscope, and other nineteenth-century optical toys analyzed as "new media" of their era, provoking anxieties similar to our own about children and screens.
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