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RLST 183 HM - Ghosts and the Machines: Occult Mediumship and Modern Media

Explores the interrelations between occult mediumship, modern media and technology in Europe and the United States from the nineteenth century through the present. Topics for the course include: ghostly visions and magic lantern phantasmagoria; American spiritualism and the telegraph; phrenology and rise of the archive; psychical research and stage magic; radio’s disembodied voices; and spirit photography and therapeutic light therapies; psychic television; magic on film.

Course Credit: 1.0


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