Frank Kessler

Sarah Dellmann

Slides for the magic or optical lantern were a major tool for knowledge transfer in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Schools, universities, the church and many public and private institutions all over the world relied on the lantern for illustrated lectures and demonstrations. This volume brings together scholarly research on the educational uses of the optical lantern in different disciplines by international specialists, representing the state of the art of magic lantern research today. In addition, it contains a lab section with contributions by archivists and curators and performers reflecting on ways to preserve, present and re-use this immensely rich cultural heritage today. Authors of this collection of essays will include Richard Crangle, Sarah Dellmann, Ine van Dooren, Claire Dupré La Tour, Jenny Durrant, Francisco Javier Frutos Esteban, Anna Katharina Graskamp, Emily Hayes, Erkki Huhtamo, Martyn Jolly, Joe Kember, Frank Kessler, Machiko Kusahara, Sabine Lenk, Vanessa Otero, Carmen López San Segundo, Ariadna Lorenzo Sunyer, Daniel Pitarch, Jordi Pons, Montse Puigdeval, Angélique Quillay, Angel Quintana Morraja, Nadezhda Stanulevich, Jennifer Tucker, Kurt Vanhoutte, Márcia Vilarigues, Joseph Wachelder, Artemis Willis, Lee Wing Ki, Irene Suk Mei Wong, and Nele Wynants.

Magic Lantern Slides in the History of Learning

A Million Pictures

Philippe Meers

Annie Van den Oever

Klassieke en moderne filmtheorie

Tony Hillerman

The photographs of Frank Kessler, a GI in the Army's Signal Corps during World War II, make ordinary images of war significant, capturing the up-close wreckage and misery of what the men in rifle companies and tank units struggled through, in a volume featuring commentary by World War II veteran and best-selling author Tony Hillerman.

A GI's War in Photographs

Kilroy was There

Jean-Marc Larrue

Giusy Pisano

Vaste panorama international des interactions entre magie et technologies des arts du spectacle

Machines. Magie. Médias

Nanna Verhoeff

This collection of essays explores the complex issue of film distribution from the invention of cinema into the 1910s. From regional distribution networks to international marketing strategies, these essays discuss the intriguing question of how films came to meet their audiences.

Early Film Distribution 1895-1915

Networks of Entertainment

Slides for the magic or optical lantern were a major tool for knowledge transfer in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Schools, universities, the church and many public and private institutions all over the world relied on the lantern for illustrated lectures and demonstrations. This volume brings together scholarly research on the educational uses of the optical lantern in different disciplines by international specialists, representing the state of the art of magic lantern research today. In addition, it contains a lab section with contributions by archivists and curators and performers reflecting on ways to preserve, present and re-use this immensely rich cultural heritage today. Authors of this collection of essays will include Janelle Blankenship, Karin Bienek, Stephen Bottomore, Richard Crangle, Sarah Dellmann, Ine van Dooren, Claire Dupr La Tour, Jenny Durrant, Francisco Javier Frutos Esteban, Anna Katharina Graskamp, Emily Hayes, Erkki Huhtamo, Lydia Jakobs, Martyn Jolly, Joe Kember, Frank Kessler, Machiko Kusahara, Sabine Lenk, Maria Carmen Lpez San Segundo, Ariadna Lorenzo Sunyer, Maria Mnnig, Ana David Mendes, Daniela Mller-Kolb, Alina Novik, Daniel Pitarch, Jordi Pons, Montse Puigdeval, Anglique Quillay, ngel Quintana Morraja, Nadezhda Stanulevich, Vanessa Toulmin, Jennifer Tucker, Kurt Vanhoutte, Mrcia Vilarigues, Ludwig Vogl-Bienek, Joseph Wachelder, Artemis Willis, Lee Wing Ki, Irene Suk Mei Wong and Nele Wynants.

This collection of essays explores the complex issue of film distribution from the invention of cinema into the 1910s. From regional distribution networks to international marketing strategies, from the analysis of distribution catalogs to case studies on individual distributors, these essays written by well-known specialists in the field discuss the intriguing question of how films came to meet their audiences. Among the authors are Richard Abel, Marta Braun, Joseph Garncarz, André Gaudreault, François Jost, Charlie Keil, Martin Loiperdinger, Viva Paci, Wanda Strauven, and Gregory Waller.

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