Late Nineteenth‐Century Stage Magic and the Roots of Cinema in the Appearance (and Disappearance) of the Virtual Image Cover Image

Jesteśmy tutaj i gdzie indziej. Magia sceniczna końca XIX wieku a pojawienie się (i zanikanie) wirtualnego obrazu jako korzenie kina
Late Nineteenth‐Century Stage Magic and the Roots of Cinema in the Appearance (and Disappearance) of the Virtual Image

Author(s): Tom Gunning
Subject(s): Anthropology, Media studies, Visual Arts, Communication studies, Culture and social structure , Crowd Psychology: Mass phenomena and political interactions, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of the arts, business, education, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Szkoła Wyższa Psychologii Społecznej
Keywords: popular culture; magic; cultural series; illusion; imagistic turn; visual imaginary; juggling;

Summary/Abstract: This essay is not only written to widen the prehistory of cinema with the story of magical illusions. Too often, this type of genealogy was limited to enumerating consecutive technological innovations, suggesting a teleological advance leading to the invention of cinema. I rather hope that I draw the attention of researchers dealing with cinema on the longue durée of visual media and on the complex consonance of technology, spectatorship and visual imagery, so important at the end of the 19th century.

  • Issue Year: 37/2013
  • Issue No: 03
  • Page Range: 6-17
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish