Illusions in motion : media archaeology of the moving panorama and related spectacles /
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| Author / Creator: | Huhtamo, Erkki. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2013] |
| Description: | xix, 438 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Leonardo Leonardo book series. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9041845 |
Table of Contents:
- Series Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Preface: The Formation of a Panoramaniac
- 1. Introduction: Moving Panorama-A Missing Medium
- The Panorama and Things Panoramic
- From a Stationary to a Mobile Medium
- From the Shadow of the Mighty Rotunda
- The Painted, the Performed, and the Discursive Panorama
- Tracing the Topoi: The Media Archaeological Approach
- From Oblivion to Resurrection: A Road Map
- 2. The Incubation Era: Antecedents and Anticipations
- Moving Panorama-An Etymological Excavation
- Offshoot of the Panorama, or a Form of Visual Storytelling?
- Peeping at Picture Rolls
- Parklands in Boxes: Carmontelle's Transparencies
- Miniature Panoramas: From Popish Plots to Altona's Entertainments
- 3. Large as Life, and Moving: The Peristrephic Panorama
- The Elusive Messrs. Marshall
- The Apparatus According to an Eyewitness
- Circularity, Stasis, and Motion-The French Connection
- Uncle lack at the Moving Panorama Show
- "Perioramas" of the Mind, or the Discursive Dimension
- 4. Rolling Across the Stage: The Moving Panorama and the Theater
- Spectacle Takes Over: From Servandoni to De Loutherbourg
- The Moving Pictures of the Eidophusikon
- Eidophusikon, Mechanical Theaters, and the Realm of Spectacles
- The Panorama, the Pantomime, and the Art of Heterogeneity
- Virtual Voyaging with the Balloon Panorama
- The Lure of the Market and Perfection in Invisibility
- 5. Transformed by the Light: The Diorama and the "Dioramas"
- The Invention and Dissemination of a New Spectacle
- The Diorama as a Vision Machine
- "This Wondrous Exhibition," or the Diorama's Reception
- The Metamorphosis into an Itinerant Attraction
- 6. Panoramania: The Mid-Century Moving Panorama Craze
- Dry Season on Rainy Islands
- The Moving Panorama Penetrates American Culture
- John Banvard, or the Making of a Myth
- Trips to the World and the Heart: Panoramic Genres in America
- The American Invasion of the British Isles
- Countering with Quality: British Productions of the Panoramania Era
- 7. Panoramania in Practice: Albert Smith and his Moving Panoramas
- The Natural History of a Bohemian
- At Home on the Overland Trail
- The Anatomy of an Alpine Spectacle
- Nougat Glacé de Mont Blanc, or Media Marketing
- Barnumized?
- A Parade of Epigones, or Anonymous Afterlives
- 8. An Excavation: The Moving Panorama Performance
- Parodying the Panorama
- Constructing Continuity
- Discontinuity as Strategy
- 9. Intermedial Tug of War: Panoramas and Magic Lanterns
- By Any Medium Available: The Civil War and the Panorama Trade
- The Challenge and Dissemination of Dissolving Views
- Panoramas and the Coming of Photography
- A War of Discourses
- 10. Sensory Bombardment: A Medium's Final Fanfares
- The Myriorama as a Roadshow Attraction
- The Théatre Morieux Time Capsule
- The Past as Future, or the Panorama Revival
- Panoramas, Patents, and the Universal Exposition of 1900
- "Vehicular Amplification," or the Quest for Immersion
- 11. Imagination in Motion: The Discursive Panorama
- Toward a Shadow History of the Moving Panorama
- The Literary Absorption of the Moving Panorama
- Exercises in Perception: From Stationary to Moving Panoramas
- The Cranking God: Panoramas and the Religious Imagination
- Mind, Memory, and Consciousness: Panoramic Parables
- 12. Conclusion: From Panoramas to Media Culture
- Figures on the Screens, or Things Left Unsaid
- What Is Media Culture?
- From Illusions to Interactions
- Appendix A. List of Surviving Moving Panoramas (Compiled with Suzanne Wray and Peter Morelli)
- Bibliography
- Index
