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book is loaded with medical case studies, media spectacles, LINDA WILLIAMS is professor emeritus in the Departments of Film and pseudoscience, material culture, conspiracy theories, and the Media and of Rhetoric at the University of California Berkeley. Her recent publications include On “The Wire” (Duke University Press, 2014) and occult. Melodrama Unbound: Across History, Media, and National Cultures (Co- Sconce begins his historical analysis in the eighteenth cen- lumbia University Press, 2018), coedited with Christine Gledhill. tury when galvanism—the application of electricity to (usu- BOOK DATA Hermann Kappelhoff, Front Lines of Community: Holly- ally dead) muscles—emerged as a speculative method for wood between War and Democracy. Translated by Daniel Hendrickson. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018. $80.99 cloth; $56.99 e-book. 388 pages. physiological study. Inspiring both wonderment and anxiety about electricity’s effects on organic matter, galvanism serves as a harbinger for ever more elaborate speculation and con- LEO GOLDSMITH cern about the human body’s relationship with electronic media. (It also inspired and informed the experiments with The Technical Delusion: Electronics, Power, Insanity by dead flesh in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.) In building this Jeffrey Sconce historical genealogy of conditions still being experienced, We’ve all had the experience: one day you are idly
Film Quarterly – University of California Press
Published: Sep 1, 2019
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