The Magic Lantern at Work (eBook, PDF)

Witnessing, Persuading, Experiencing and Connecting
Redaktion: Jolly, Martyn; Decourcy, Elisa

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Through a set of case studies, a team of international scholars analyze the emerging power of the lantern show in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries within politics, religion, travel, science, health, marketing and entertainment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000036459
• Artikelnr.: 58536228

Autorenporträt

Martyn Jolly is Honorary Associate Professor at the Australian National University School of Art and Design. Elisa deCourcy is Research Fellow at the Australian National University School of Art and Design.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Magic Lantern at Work: Witnessing, Persuading, Experiencing and
Connecting 2. The Magic Lantern as a Creative Tool for Understanding the
Materiality and Mathematics of Image-Making 3. Spirits in the Fairgrounds:
Métempsycose and Its After-Images 4. 'We Fighters on the Outposts':
Suffragists and Lantern Slides, 1889-1913 5. Magical Attractions: Lantern
Slide Lectures at British Association for the Advancement of Science Annual
Meetings, c. 1850-1920 6. The Missionaries' Servant: Babel, Funding and the
Bible Society in Australia 7. The Endless Universe and Eternal Life:
Clement L. Wragge's Magic Lantern Lectures 8. Flights of Fancy: The
Production, Reception and Implications of Lawrence Hargrave's Magic Lantern
Lecture Lope de Vega 9. Anna Mary Longshore Potts and the Anglophone
Circuit for Lantern Lecturing in the Late Nineteenth Century 10. Sidney
Dickinson: 'One of the Most Entertaining Speakers Ever Upon the Melbourne
Platform' 11. The Difficulties of Witnessing: Armin T. Wegner's Lantern
Slide Show on the Armenian Genocide