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Jeffrey Sconce traces the history and continuing proliferation of psychological delusions that center on suspicions that electronic media seek to control us from the Enlightenment to the present, showing how such delusions illuminate the historical and intrinsic relationship between electronics, power, modernity, and insanity

This book introduces an archaeological approach to the study of media - one that sifts through the evidence to learn how media were written about, used, designed, preserved, and sometimes discarded. Edited by Erkki Huhtamo and Jussi Parikka, with contributions from internationally prominent scholars from Europe, North America, and Japan, the essays help us understand how the media that predate today's interactive, digital forms were in their time contested, adopted and embedded in the everyday. Providing a broad overview of the many historical and theoretical facets of Media Archaeology as an emerging field, the book encourages discussion by presenting a full range of different voices. By revisiting 'old' or even 'dead' media, it provides a richer horizon for understanding 'new' media in their complex and often contradictory roles in contemporary society and culture

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- I. INDUSTRY, PROGRAMS, AND PRODUCTION CONTEXTS -- Convergence Television: Aggregating Form and Repurposing Content in the Culture of Conglomeration -- Lifestyling Britain: The 8–9 Slot on British Television -- What If ?: Charting Television's New Textual Boundaries -- Interactive Television and Advertising Form in Contemporary U.S. Television -- Flexible Microcastting: Gender, Generation, and Television-Internet Convergence -- II. TECHNOLOGY, SOCIETY, AND CULTURAL FORM -- Television's Next Generation: Technology/ Interface Culture/Flow -- The Rhythms of the Reception Area: Crisis, Capitalism, and the Waiting Room tv -- Broadcast Television: The Chances of Its Survival in a Digital Age -- Double Click: The Million Woman March on Television and the Internet -- III. ELECTRONIC NATIONS, THEN AND NOW -- One Commercial Week: Television in Sweden Prior to Public Service -- Media Capitals: Cultural Geographies of Global tv -- At Home with Television -- Pocho.com: Reimaging Television on the Internet -- IV. TELEVISION TEACHERS -- Television, the Housewife, and the Museum of Modern Art -- From Republic of Letters to Television Republic? Citizen Readers in the Era of Broadcast Television -- Cultural Studies, Television Studies, and the Crisis in the Humanities -- Contributors -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Sex Seen: 1968 and Rise of "Public" Sex * -- Part I: Mainstream Media and the Sexual Revolution -- 1. Rate It X?: Hollywood Cinema and the End of the Production Code -- 2. Make Love, Not War: Jane Fonda Comes Home (1968-1978) -- 3. The New Sexual Culture of American Television in the 1970s -- Part II: Sex as Art -- 4. Prurient (Dis)Interest: The American Release and Reception of I Am Curious (Yellow) -- 5. Wet Dreams: Erotic Film Festivals of the Early 1970s and the Utopian Sexual Public Sphere -- 6. Let the Sweet Juices Flow: WR and Midnight Movie Culture -- Part III: Media at the Margins -- 7. 33 1/3 Sexual Revolutions per Minute -- 8. "I'll Take Sweden": The Shifting Discourse of the "Sexy Nation" in Sexploitation Films -- 9. Altered Sex: Satan, Acid, and the Erotic Threshold -- 10. The "Sexarama": Or Sex Education as an Environmental Multimedia Experience -- 11. San Francisco and the Politics of Hardcore -- 12. Beefcake to Hardcore: Gay Pornography and the Sexual Revolution -- Part V: Contending with the Sex Scene -- 13. Publicizing Sex through Consumer and Privacy Rights: How the American Civil Liberties Union Liberated Media in the 1960s -- 14. Critics and the Sex Scene -- 15. Porn Goes to College: American Universities, Their Students, and Pornography, 1968-1973 -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index

Sex Scene suggests that what we have come to understand as the sexual revolution of the late 1960s and early 1970s was actually a media revolution. In lively essays, the contributors examine a range of mass media—film and television, recorded sound, and publishing—that provide evidence of the circulation of sex in the public sphere, from the mainstream to the fringe. They discuss art films such as I am Curious (Yellow), mainstream movies including Midnight Cowboy, sexploitation films such as Mantis in Lace, the emergence of erotic film festivals and of gay pornography, the use of multimedia in sex education, and the sexual innuendo of The Love Boat. Scholars of cultural studies, history, and media studies, the contributors bring shared concerns to their diverse topics. They highlight the increasingly fluid divide between public and private, the rise of consumer and therapeutic cultures, and the relationship between identity politics and individual rights. The provocative surveys and case studies in this nuanced cultural history reframe the "sexual revolution" as the mass sexualization of our mediated world.Contributors. Joseph Lam Duong, Jeffrey Escoffier, Kevin M. Flanagan, Elena Gorfinkel, Raymond J. Haberski Jr., Joan Hawkins, Kevin Heffernan, Eithne Johnson, Arthur Knight, Elana Levine, Christie Milliken, Eric Schaefer, Jeffrey Sconce, Jacob Smith, Leigh Ann Wheeler, Linda Williams

We are all fans. Whether we log on to Web sites to scrutinize the latest plot turns in Lost, "stalk" our favorite celebrities on Gawker, attend gaming conventions, or simply wait with bated breath for the newest Harry Potter novel-each of us is a fan. Fandom extends beyond television and film to literature, opera, sports, and pop music, and encompasses both high and low culture. Fandom brings together leading scholars to examine fans, their practices, and their favorite texts. This unparalleled selection of original essays examines instances across the spectrum of modern cultural consumption from Karl Marx to Paris Hilton, Buffy the Vampire Slayer to backyard wrestling, Bach fugues to Bollywood cinema¸ and nineteenth-century concert halls to computer gaming. Contributors examine fans of high cultural texts and genres, the spaces of fandom, fandom around the globe, the impact of new technologies on fandom, and the legal and historical contexts of fan activity. Fandom is key to understanding modern life in our increasingly mediated and globalized world