Illusions in Motion : Media Archaeology of the Moving Panorama and Related Spectacles.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (461 pages)
- Leonardo Series .
- Leonardo Series .
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.