Magic lantern, panorama and moving picture shows in Ireland, 1786-1909 /
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| Author / Creator: | Rockett, Kevin. |
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| Imprint: | Dublin, Ireland : Four Courts Press, 2011. |
| Description: | 403 p., [48] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8660104 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- 1. The Magic Lantern in Ireland
- A world of shadows and the camera obscura
- The magic lantern as science and entertainment
- A (necessary) digression into magic and sorcery
- The magic lantern as phantasmagoria in Ireland: ghost-raising as entertainment
- Technical innovations in magic lantern exhibition in the nineteenth century
- The magic lantern, education and proselytizing
- The magic lantern and Irish politics
- The Knock apparition of August 1879 and the magic lantern
- 2. Panoramas and Pre-Cinema Moving Images in Ireland
- (Irish) origins and contexts of the panorama
- Dublin, one of the earliest panorama locations, 1794
- Philippe de Loutherbourg's eidophusikon in Ireland
- The ascent of the panorama as a commercial entertainment in Ireland
- Moving panoramas
- Photographing movement
- Peepshow motion in Ireland
- 3. Creating Entertainment Venues of Surveillance and Control
- Fairs, national economy and popular culture
- Entertainments at Donnybrook and other fairs during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
- Suppression of Donnybrook Fair
- Tableaux vivants in Ireland
- Creating indoor entertainment venues of surveillance and control
- 4. Establishing Moving Picture Exhibition in Ireland, 1895-1909
- The first projected moving pictures in Ireland
- Discourses of British imperialism in Irish screening practices, 1897-1901
- The rise of the Rotunda as a film exhibition venue, 1897-1902
- Irish Animated Photo/Picture Company, 1902-9
- Appendix: Irish population and earnings statistics
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- General Index
- Index of Venues
