The Comedy of Computation: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Obsolescence - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Stanford University PressISBN-13:9781503642621ISBN-10:1503642623UPC:9781503642621Book Category:Literary Criticism, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Modern, Media Studies, HumorBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.1707Product ID:SC757N6H75
In this cultural history of the computer, Benjamin Mangrum shows that comedy has been central to how we've made sense of the technology's sweeping effects on public life and private experience. From the first Broadway play to include a computer in the 1950s to popular films like You've Got Mail and joke-telling digital assistants, Mangrum assembles an extensive archive of work by writers,...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Stanford University PressISBN-13:9781503642621ISBN-10:1503642623UPC:9781503642621Book Category:Literary Criticism, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Modern, Media Studies, HumorBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.1707Product ID:SC757N6H75
Benjamin Mangrum is Associate Professor of Literature at MIT and author of Land of Tomorrow: Postwar Fiction and the Crisis of American Liberalism (2019), winner of the Louis I. Bredvold Prize in 2019, awarded by the University of Michigan.
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