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The Great Art Of Light And Shadow - Archaeology of the Cinema (Paperback)
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The Great Art Of Light And Shadow - Archaeology of the Cinema (Paperback)
Series: Exeter Studies in Film History
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Widely regarded by historians of the early moving picture as the
best work yet published on pre-cinema, "The Great Art of Light and
Shadow: Archaeology of the Cinema" throws light on a fascinating
range of optical media from the twelfth century to the turn of the
twentieth. First published in French in 1994 and now translated
into English, Laurent Mannoni's account projects a broad picture of
the subject area now known as 'pre-cinema'. Starting from the
earliest uses of the camera obscura in astronomy and entertainment,
Mannoni discusses, among many other devices, the invention and
early years of the magic lantern in the seventeenth century, the
peepshows and perspective views of the eighteenth century, and the
many weird and wonderful nineteenth-century attempts to recreate
visions of real life in different ways and forms. This
fully-illustrated and accessible account of a strange mixture of
science, magic, art and deception introduces to an English-speaking
readership many aspects of pre-cinema history from other European
countries.
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