Author: Walter MaynardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The Light of Other Days Seen Through the Wrong End of an Opera Glass
Author: Walter MaynardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The light of other days, seen through the wrong end of an opera glass
Author: Thomas Willert BealePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Analytical and Classified Catalogue of the Library ...: A-H
Author: Dennis O'DonovanIllusions in Motion
Author: Erkki HuhtamoPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262313103
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 461
Book Description
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.
Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
Author: The Academy
Author: Catalogue of the Allen A. Brown Collection of Music in the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Allen A. Brown Collection (Boston Public Library)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
The Book Buyer
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
A review and record of current literature.
Catalogs
Author: Harold Reeves (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
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