Illusions in Motion : Media Archaeology of the Moving Panorama and Related Spectacles.
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Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Preface:The Formation Of A Panoramaniac -- 1. Introduction: Moving Panorama-A Missing Medium -- 2. The Incubation Era: Antecedents and Anticipations -- 3. Large As Life, and Moving: The Peristrephic Panorama -- 4. Rolling Across the Stage: The Moving Panorama and the Theater -- 5. Transformed by the Light: The Diorama and the "Dioramas" -- 6. Panoramania: The Mid-Century Moving Panorama Craze -- 7. Panoramania in Practice: Albert Smith and His Moving Panoramas -- 8. An Excavation: The Moving Panorama Performance -- 9. Intermedial Tug of War: Panoramas and Magic Lanterns -- 10. Sensory Bombardment: A Medium's Final Fanfares -- 11. Imagination in Motion: The Discursive Panorama -- 12. Conclusion: From Panoramas to Media Culture -- Appendix: A List of Surviving Moving Panoramas -- Bibliography -- Index.
Tracing the cultural, material, and discursive history of an early manifestation of media culture in the making.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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