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Book review: Playful Visions: Optical Toys and the Emergence of Children’s Media Culture

Book review: Playful Visions: Optical Toys and the Emergence of Children’s Media Culture 1049364 ANM0010.1177/17468477211049364AnimationBook review book-review2021 Book review animation: an interdisciplinary journal 2021, Vol. 16(3) 221–223 Book review © The Author(s) 2021 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions https://doi.org/10.1177/17468477211049364 DOI: 10.1177/17468477211049364 journals.sagepub.com/home/anm Meredith A Bak, Playful Visions: Optical Toys and the Emergence of Children’s Media Culture. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2020: 288 pp., ISBN 9780262538718, £25.00 (pbk). Víctor Navarro-Remesal Tecnocampus, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Optical toys have long been relegated to being museum pieces in the prehistory of cinema, whether they are live action or animated. In their time, they were, however, not only things to be seen, to be looked at, but playthings – things to be played with. More importantly, they were radically new. Meeting them, just as precursors to cinema now, it may be hard to imagine them as challenges to the media ecology of their time, full of promises, fears and reception debates. Helping us to imag- ine that is precisely what Meredith A Bak’s very exciting and thought-provoking Playful Visions: Optical Toys and the Emergence of Children’s Media Culture sets out to do. Published under the dual categories of ‘education and media’, the book’s interdisciplinary approach to optical toys in their original 19th- and early 20th-century contexts http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Animation SAGE

Book review: Playful Visions: Optical Toys and the Emergence of Children’s Media Culture

Navarro-Remesal, Víctor
Animation , Volume 16 (3): 3 – Nov 1, 2021
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1049364 ANM0010.1177/17468477211049364AnimationBook review book-review2021 Book review animation: an interdisciplinary journal 2021, Vol. 16(3) 221–223 Book review © The Author(s) 2021 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions https://doi.org/10.1177/17468477211049364 DOI: 10.1177/17468477211049364 journals.sagepub.com/home/anm Meredith A Bak, Playful Visions: Optical Toys and the Emergence of Children’s Media Culture. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2020: 288 pp., ISBN 9780262538718, £25.00 (pbk). Víctor Navarro-Remesal Tecnocampus, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Optical toys have long been relegated to being museum pieces in the prehistory of cinema, whether they are live action or animated. In their time, they were, however, not only things to be seen, to be looked at, but playthings – things to be played with. More importantly, they were radically new. Meeting them, just as precursors to cinema now, it may be hard to imagine them as challenges to the media ecology of their time, full of promises, fears and reception debates. Helping us to imag- ine that is precisely what Meredith A Bak’s very exciting and thought-provoking Playful Visions: Optical Toys and the Emergence of Children’s Media Culture sets out to do. Published under the dual categories of ‘education and media’, the book’s interdisciplinary approach to optical toys in their original 19th- and early 20th-century contexts

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