The Magic Lantern at Work: Witnessing, Persuading, Experiencing and Connecting

dc.contributor.authorJolly, Martyn
dc.contributor.editorMartyn Jolly
dc.contributor.editorElisa deCourcy
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-15T03:07:57Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.date.updated2020-12-20T07:38:56Z
dc.description.abstractFor centuries, various new media technologies have provided individuals with a set of powerful tools to affect their audiences. Among these the magic lantern show was perhaps the most pervasive, and persuasive. Around the world audiences gathered together in darkened rooms to see a sequence of projected images transition one into another as they listened to personal stories or scripted narrations. Through the power of the magic lantern audiences, for the first time, became the direct witnesses to distant, often traumatic, political events; they visually learned new scientific and medical knowledge, virtually experienced distant places, and collectively experienced strange, often uncanny, phenomena. Although relatively neglected until recently, the apparatus of the magic lantern is now receiving the attention it deserves from historians, curators and artists. Through a set of case studies focusing on the use of the magic lantern by very different, but equally fascinating individuals, a team of international scholars analyses the emerging power of the lantern show in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries within politics, religion, travel, science, health, marketing and entertainment. The magic lantern's connections to today's multimedia environments are explored through the intertwined themes of connecting, experiencing, witnessing and persuading.
dc.format.extent214 pages
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.isbn9780429317576en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/206195
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.relation.ispartofseriesRoutledge Studies in Cultural History
dc.relation.isversionof1st Edition
dc.rights© 2020 Taylor & Francis
dc.titleThe Magic Lantern at Work: Witnessing, Persuading, Experiencing and Connecting
dc.typeBook
local.bibliographicCitation.placeofpublicationNew York
local.contributor.affiliationJolly, Martyn, College of Arts and Social Sciences, The Australian National Universityen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationdeCourcy, Elisa, College of Arts and Social Sciences, The Australian National Universityen_AU
local.contributor.authoremailmartyn.jolly@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidJolly, Martyn, u9311275en_AU
local.contributor.authoruiddeCourcy, Elisa, u1031234en_AU
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.description.refereedYes
local.identifier.absfor200104 - Media Studiesen_AU
local.identifier.absfor190104 - Visual Culturesen_AU
local.identifier.absseo970116 - Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Societyen_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationu6048437xPUB883en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.4324/9780429317576en_AU
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByu6048437en_AU
local.type.statusMetadata Onlyen_AU

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