Media+History

'Media History' is an obligatory course for students in Communication and Media Science (BA) and an elective course for other students (e.g. ERASMUS exchange students) at CUB.

Read the official course syllabus here: http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~szantay/adatlap/7so30nckk4b.pdf

=1) Introduction= > = https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YMjMkbgq2EBRgj97LUu0_pOmeflWSway/view?usp=sharing > watch online: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x45w842 > more info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0683117/ > = https://youtu.be/HhJlag0Ji7c
 * technical information
 * MEDIA HISTORY PROJECT DRAFT
 * SIGN UP FOR PRESENTATION
 * = https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gH6HTbQTV7jdGLuIVzSrPHxIaolLC4cDIyJv1spuEJE/edit?usp=sharing
 * The Blues Brothers - Rawhide & Stand By Your Man = https://youtu.be/ew1sSznDcWA
 * Frankie Laine, Rawhide (1958) = https://youtu.be/2KPplYp7K7M
 * Rawhide S01 E01 - Incident of the Tumbleweed [Wagon] (aired January 9, 1959)
 * Rawhide S04 E21 - The Pitchwagon - Clint Eastwood singing 'Beyond the Sun' (aired March 2, 1962)
 * 'The Lone Ranger' = http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~szantay/protected/Szantay_MH_The_Lone_Ranger.pdf
 * Eurovision Song Contest, Lisbon, May 8, 10 & 12, 2018 = https://eurovision.tv/

=2-3) Basics of communications, languages= > watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/qFxg5vkaPgk > read the review by Norbert Francis: https://daneverettbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/daniel_l_everett_how_language_began_the_story_of_humanitys_greatest_invention_new_york_w_w_norton_2107_pp_xviii_306.pdf
 * a simple model of communication
 * anatomy of the throat, the ability of speech
 * aquatic ape theory
 * Daniel L. Everett, How Language Began: The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention, New York 2017
 * early human migrations
 * Languages of the World = http://www.ethnologue.com
 * languages and language families
 * living, endangered and dead languages
 * language diversity
 * size of languages
 * language skills
 * artificial languages

=4) History of writing=
 * importance of writing, read the story of Pizarro and Atahualpa (J. Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel...)
 * beginnings
 * strategies
 * functions
 * handwriting
 * printing
 * typewriter
 * digital devices, word processors, 'mass writing'
 * see the presentation: http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~szantay/protected/Szantay_MH_writing.pdf
 * recommended reading Deborah Brandt, The Rise of Writing, Redefining Mass Literacy, Cambridge 2015 = http://www.cambridge.org/sc/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/english-language-and-linguistics-general-interest/rise-writing-redefining-mass-literacy?format=PB

= 5) Printed texts, history of reading =
 * printing and Reformation
 * printing business
 * regulations, censorship, Index
 * free press, world’s first Freedom of the Press Act of Sweden and Finland 1766 - seminar at the Embassy of Finland, Budapest, April 13, 2016 http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~szantay/250-invitation.pdf
 * 'Age of books' (18th century)
 * 'Age of newspapers' (19th century)

= 6-7) Paintings and pictures = > read R. Derek Wood's essays on the Diorama = http://www.midley.co.uk/diorama/Diorama_Wood_1_1.htm
 * Monty Python scene, 'Michelangelo and the Pope' - watch online: http://indavideo.hu/video/Monty_Python_-_Michelangelo_es_a_Papa
 * Veronese's hearing before Inquisition, 1573
 * Veronese, 'Wedding in Cana' (1563)
 * see the presentation: http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~szantay/protected/Szantay_MH_Veronese.pdf
 * storytelling paintings (H. Bosch, Tintoretto)
 * comics
 * illusions: perspective and movement
 * capturing and watching pictures: camera obscura, laterna magica
 * diorama theatre of Louis Daguerre, 1822
 * panoramic paintings - International Panorama Council = http://panoramacouncil.org/

= 8-9) Modern communications =
 * roads
 * post service
 * The Pony Express
 * steam engine
 * waterways, steamboat
 * steam locomotive
 * railways
 * railways in art and on film
 * Pacific 231 (1949) by Jean Mitry, on music by Arthur Honegger = []
 * For A Few Dollars More (1965) - This train'll stop at Tucumcari = []
 * For A Few Dollars More (1965) - The Trains Damn Em !!! = https://youtu.be/hgFTKuWWYhQ
 * Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) - Intro = .......
 * Chattanooga Choo Choo - The Andrews Sisters w/onscreen lyrics = https://youtu.be/FdrYYUuT07Q

=10-11) Telegraphy=
 * optical
 * electrical
 * telephone
 * radio
 * television
 * internet
 * see the presentation: http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~szantay/protected/Szantay_MH_telegraphy.pdf

=12) Sound recording, photography=
 * phonautograph (1857)
 * Thomas Alva Edison's phonograph (1877)
 * Charles Cros' paleophone (1877)
 * Emile Berliner's gramophone (1887)
 * electrical recording, microphone
 * magnetic tapes, magnetophone, Compact Cassette
 * stereo, hi-fi
 * digital recording, Compact Disc
 * digital storage (magnetic tape, hard disc drive, floppy disc, optical disc [CD/DVD], flash drive [pen drive], flash memory card [SD card], cloud)
 * Louis Daguerre's daguerreotype (1839)
 * still photography cameras
 * movie camera
 * professional video camera (TV camera)
 * videotape, videotape recorder, video cassette recorders
 * camcorders (with video cassette or digital recording)
 * digital camera (digicam), digital storage, Digital Video Disc

= 13) Beginnings of filmmaking = >> = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Taumatropio_fiori_e_vaso,_1825.gif >> = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenakistiscope#/media/File:Optical_illusion_disc_with_man_pumping_water.gif
 * moving pictures
 * flip book, try online: https://flippingbook.com/online-flipbook
 * John Ayrton Paris & William Henry Fitton's thaumatrope (1826/1827)
 * Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau's phenakistiscope (1829), theories of Peter Mark Roget and Michael Faraday
 * Simon von Stampfer's stroboscopic discs (1833) = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_von_Stampfer#/media/File:Stampfer_disc.jpg
 * William George Horner's zoetrope (1834)
 * Emile Reynaud's, praxinoscope (1877) = https://awesam333.wordpress.com/2014/02/25/difference-between-zoetrope-and-praxinoscope/
 * Pierre Janssen, Passage de Venus, (Japan 1874) = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passage_de_Venus
 * Eadweard Muybridge
 * Race Horse Galopping (1878) = https://youtu.be/IEqccPhsqgA?list=PLOGMXGZK9kQ3ecNQaXPHpVpJFXg_kjmqM#
 * Animal Locomotion = https://youtu.be/07x7KhuwwFE
 * zoopraxiscope (initially named zoographiscope and zoogyroscope, 1879)
 * T.A. Edison
 * kinetoscope
 * Thomas Edison Train Films 1897-1906. Historic American Steam Trains = https://youtu.be/dJfiFFMuOMI
 * The Great Train Robbery (1903) = https://youtu.be/zuto7qWrplc
 * Broncho Billy and the Schoolmistress (1912) = https://youtu.be/Kvo7-kxQSDo
 * Broncho Billy & The Classic Cowboy Silent Films Of Niles CA = https://youtu.be/ae1N1hp4baU
 * Lumière brothers
 * cinematograph
 * The Lumière Brothers' First Films, edited by Thierry Fremaux, narrated by Bertrand Tavernier = []
 * Georges Méliès, A Trip to the Moon (1902, restored 2011) = https://youtu.be/16Vw6GVns9Q
 * YouTube collection - Breve storia del cinema = https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKhrE5P1BISKAxcXabxUuoA/featured
 * YouTube collection - Landmarks of Early Film = []

= 14) Creativity and economy =
 * Creating Growth (2014) study - download at http://www.creatingeurope.eu/en/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/study-full-en.pdf