Playful Visions: Optical Toys and the Emergence of Children's Media Culture

by Meredith A Bak and Meredith A. Bak

The kaleidoscope, the stereoscope, and other nineteenth-century optical toys analyzed as "new media" of their era, provoking anxieties similar to our own about children and screens.

In the nineteenth century, the kaleidoscope, the thaumatrope, the zoetrope, the stereoscope, and other optical toys were standard accessories of a middle-class childhood, used both at home and at school. In Playful Visions, Meredith Bak argues that the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262538717
• ISBN13: 9780262538718
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"