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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,

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

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Tracing the cultural, material, and discursive history of an early manifestation of media culture in the making.Beginning in the late... Read more

    Publisher: MIT Press
    Publication Date: 8/22/2023 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780262547543, 978-0262547543
    ISBN10: 0262547546

    Number of Pages: 460

    Non Fiction , Politics, Philosophy & Society

    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,

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