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

ISBN-13: 9781032175614 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 228 str.

Martyn Jolly; Elisa Decourcy

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.