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Illusions in Motion : Media Archaeology of the Moving Panorama and Related Spectacles.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Leonardo SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (461 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262313094
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Illusions in MotionDDC classification:
  • 751.7/4
LOC classification:
  • ND2880 -- .H84 2013eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: Tracing the cultural, material, and discursive history of an early manifestation of media culture in the making.
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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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