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Illusions in motion : media archaeology of the moving panorama and related spectacles /

Tracing the cultural, material, and discursive history of an early manifestation of media culture in the making. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, huge circular panoramas presented their audiences with resplendent representations that ranged from historic battles to exotic locations. Such pa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Huhtamo, Erkki
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ©2013.
Colección:Leonardo book series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface: The Formation of a Panoramaniac
  • Introduction: Moving Panorama
  • a Missing Medium
  • The Incubation Era: Antecedents and Anticipations
  • Large as Life, and Moving: The Peristrephic Panorama
  • Rolling Across the Stage: The Moving Panorama and the Theatre
  • Transformed By The Light: The Diorama and the "dioramas"
  • The Panoramania, or The Mid-Century Moving Panorama Craze
  • Panoramania in Practice: Albert Smith and his Moving Panoramas
  • The Moving Panorama Performance: an Excavation
  • Intermedial Tug of War, or Panoramas and Magic Lanterns
  • Sensory Bombardment: a Medium's Final Fanfares
  • The Discursive Transfiguration of the Moving Panorama
  • Conclusion: From Panoramas to Media Culture.