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Author Huhtamo, Erkki.

Title Illusions in motion [electronic resource] : media archaeology of the moving panorama and related spectacles / Erkki Huhtamo.

Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2013.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xix, 438 p. : ill.
Series Leonardo book series
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Panoramas.
Panoramas -- Psychological aspects.
Mass media and culture.
Popular culture.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780262018517 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780262313094 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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