Topics in Film and Television Analysis: Wirelessness

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In this seminar, students consider the history, theory, and cultural politics of wireless communication technologies. Beginning in the 19th Century, when wireless communication technologies inspired potent fantasies ranging from the imperial to the occult, and tracing an arc to contemporary debates over such issues as wireless data security, this seminar explores the role of wirelessness in shaping popular understandings of the public and the private, the natural and the fabricated, and the secular and the spiritual.