Illusions in Motion: Media Archaeology of the Moving Panorama and Related Spectacles by Huhtamo, Erkki
Illusions in Motion: Media Archaeology of the Moving Panorama and Related Spectacles by Huhtamo, Erkki

Illusions in Motion: Media Archaeology of the Moving Panorama and Related Spectacles

Tracing the cultural, material, and discursive history of an early manifestation of media culture in the making.Beginning...
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Illusions in Motion: Media Archaeology of the Moving Panorama and Related Spectacles by Huhtamo, Erkki

Illusions in Motion: Media Archaeology of the Moving Panorama and Related Spectacles

$185.44
Illusions in Motion: Media Archaeology of the Moving Panorama and Related Spectacles by Huhtamo, Erkki

Illusions in Motion: Media Archaeology of the Moving Panorama and Related Spectacles

$185.44
Author: Erkki Huhtamo
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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.



Author: Erkki Huhtamo
Publisher: Mit Press
Published: 02/22/2013
Pages: 438
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.25lbs
Size: 9.24h x 7.20w x 1.26d
ISBN: 9780262018517
Audience: Young Adult


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Choice 10/01/2013

About the Author
Huhtamo, Erkki: - Erkki Huhtamo, media historian and pioneering media archaeologist, is Professor in the Department of Design Media Arts at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the coeditor of Media Archaeology: Approaches, Applications, and Implications.

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