The Great Art Of Light And Shadow
Archaeology of the Cinema
Distributed for University of Exeter Press
“Richard Crangle’s technical understanding is evident throughout – and the result is peerless . . . It has taken a great many years to create a widespread understanding that screen techniques did not start with 1895 and the Lumières. In this contribution to that understanding Laurent Mannoni tackles, with resounding success, a myriad of related media techniques, spanning half a millennium. To quote David Robinson’s Foreward, this is 'no cold, dry, academic study, but a pulsing, vital chronicle'.” –The New Magic Lantern Journal, Vol. 9, No. 1, Winter 2001
“Richard Crangle’s technical understanding is evident throughout – and the result is peerless . . . It has taken a great many years to create a widespread understanding that screen techniques did not start with 1895 and the Lumières. In this contribution to that understanding Laurent Mannoni tackles, with resounding success, a myriad of related media techniques, spanning half a millennium. To quote David Robinson’s Foreward, this is 'no cold, dry, academic study, but a pulsing, vital chronicle'.” –The New Magic Lantern Journal, Vol. 9, No. 1, Winter 2001
CHAPTER 1 - Dark rooms and magic mirrors
CHAPTER 2 - Light in the darkness
CHAPTER 3 - The 'Lantern of Fear' tours the world
PART TWO - Triumphant illusions
CHAPTER 4 - Magie Lumineuse in the country and the city
CHAPTER 5 - ''Life and Motion' The eighteenth-century lantern slide
CHAPTER 6 -The Phantasmagoria
CHAPTER 7 - From Panarama to Daguerreotype
CHAPTER 8 - The Pirouette of the dancer
CHAPTER 9 - The 'vital question' resolved?
CHAPTER 10 - Great Expectations
CHAPTER 11 - The Magic Lantern: A Sovereign and her subjects
CHAPTER 12 - The passage of Venus and the galloping horse
CHAPTER 13 - Marey releases the dove
CHAPTER 14 -The big wheel of little mirrors
CHAPTER 15 - Edison and his 'films through the keyhole'
CHAPTER 16 - The labourers of the eleventh hour
APPENDIX A: Museums displaying interesting items relating to the history of 'pre-cinema' media.
APPENDIX B: Report of the scientists Jamin and Richer on the phantasmogirie of Robertson anf the Phantasmaparastasie of Clisorius (17 July - 2 August 1800).
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