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Introduction Introduction
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From Signboards to Placards and Billboards From Signboards to Placards and Billboards
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Enlarging and Shrinking: The Gulliverization of Media Enlarging and Shrinking: The Gulliverization of Media
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The Advent of Dynamic Displays The Advent of Dynamic Displays
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Magic Lantern Projections: In Reality and in Imagination Magic Lantern Projections: In Reality and in Imagination
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The World on Robida’s Glass Discs The World on Robida’s Glass Discs
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Postscript: Los Angeles, 2014 Postscript: Los Angeles, 2014
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References References
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2 Walls, Attractions, and Media: An Archaeology of Public Visual Displays
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Published:December 2016
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This chapter examines pre-twentieth precedents for big screen displays in public spaces to demonstrate how media culture has never been segregated from outdoor milieus of distraction. It addresses largely ignored histories of public displays, including trade signs, banners, broadsides, billboards, and early dynamic displays including magic lantern shows. The chapter contextualises outdoor screens within this history to argue that public media culture is a peculiar mode of spectatorship that must be apprehended as element among many that vies for the attention of individuals within public spaces, including aural, physical elements, and other visual elements. It argues that the tendency to characterise large screens as an incursion of the private into the public fails to address the history and context of public displays, which are instead more productively apprehended as sites where the distinction between public and private is renegotiated.
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