Review of Huhtamo, Erkki, 'Illusions in Motion: Media Archaeology of the Moving Panorama and Related Spectacles', MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2013, ISBN 9 7802 6201 8517, 456 pp., US$45.00. Distributor: Footprint Books

Title
Review of Huhtamo, Erkki, 'Illusions in Motion: Media Archaeology of the Moving Panorama and Related Spectacles', MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2013, ISBN 9 7802 6201 8517, 456 pp., US$45.00. Distributor: Footprint Books
Publication Date
2014
Author(s)
Potter, Susan
Type of document
Review
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
University of Queensland, School of English, Media Studies & Art History
Place of publication
Australia
UNE publication id
une:15194
Abstract
On the face of it, 'Illusions in Motion' might seem a niche publication, lavishly illustrated - often from the author's own vast collection of ephemera, commercial apparatuses and toys - and designed to appeal primarily to specialists of an obscure mid-nineteenth-century media technology and entertainment: the moving panorama. It would be a mistake to read the book in this way. As one of the leading proponents of media archaeology, Erkki Huhtamo's achievement is not only to recuperate the forgotten moving panorama to media history, but also to demonstrate how it offers innovative insights into the historical formation of media culture.
Link
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Citation
Media International Australia (150), p. 188-189
ISSN
2200-467X
1329-878X
Start page
188
End page
189

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