Author: Polygraphic Hall (London)
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Category : Amusements
Languages : en
Pages : 66
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W. S. Woodin's Cabinet of Curiosities
Author: Polygraphic Hall (London)
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Category : Amusements
Languages : en
Pages : 66
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Category : Amusements
Languages : en
Pages : 66
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Athenaeum
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Languages : en
Pages : 888
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Pages : 888
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The Athenaeum
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 886
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 886
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The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 916
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 916
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The Illustrated London News
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 634
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 634
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The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, Art, and Finance
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 918
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 918
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Saturday Review
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Languages : en
Pages : 954
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Pages : 954
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Illustrated Times
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Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Pages : 436
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Illusions in Motion
Author: Erkki Huhtamo
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262547546
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 461
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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 panoramas were immersive but static. There were other panoramas that moved—hundreds, and probably thousands of them. Their history has been largely forgotten. In Illusions in Motion, Erkki Huhtamo excavates this neglected early manifestation of media culture in the making. The moving panorama was a long painting that unscrolled behind a “window” by means of a mechanical cranking system, accompanied by a lecture, music, and sometimes sound and light effects. Showmen exhibited such panoramas in venues that ranged from opera houses to church halls, creating a market for mediated realities in both city and country. In the first history of this phenomenon, Huhtamo analyzes the moving panorama in all its complexity, investigating its relationship to other media and its role in the culture of its time. In his telling, the panorama becomes a window for observing media in operation. Huhtamo explores such topics as cultural forms that anticipated the moving panorama; theatrical panoramas; the diorama; the "panoramania" of the 1850s and the career of Albert Smith, the most successful showman of that era; competition with magic lantern shows; the final flowering of the panorama in the late nineteenth century; and the panorama's afterlife as a topos, traced through its evocation in literature, journalism, science, philosophy, and propaganda.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262547546
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 461
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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 panoramas were immersive but static. There were other panoramas that moved—hundreds, and probably thousands of them. Their history has been largely forgotten. In Illusions in Motion, Erkki Huhtamo excavates this neglected early manifestation of media culture in the making. The moving panorama was a long painting that unscrolled behind a “window” by means of a mechanical cranking system, accompanied by a lecture, music, and sometimes sound and light effects. Showmen exhibited such panoramas in venues that ranged from opera houses to church halls, creating a market for mediated realities in both city and country. In the first history of this phenomenon, Huhtamo analyzes the moving panorama in all its complexity, investigating its relationship to other media and its role in the culture of its time. In his telling, the panorama becomes a window for observing media in operation. Huhtamo explores such topics as cultural forms that anticipated the moving panorama; theatrical panoramas; the diorama; the "panoramania" of the 1850s and the career of Albert Smith, the most successful showman of that era; competition with magic lantern shows; the final flowering of the panorama in the late nineteenth century; and the panorama's afterlife as a topos, traced through its evocation in literature, journalism, science, philosophy, and propaganda.
Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
Author: James Silk Buckingham
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 888
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Languages : en
Pages : 888
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