Great Art Of Light And Shadow: Archaeology Of The Cinema; Author: Mannoni, Laurent; Author: Translator Crangle, Richard; English;French; Hardback; Book

Author: Mannoni, Laurent; Author: Translator Crangle, Richard
Exeter Studies in Film History (Hardcover); Hardback; Book; 56 B&w Illustrations, Bibliography
500 pages
Published: September 2000
University of Exeter Press
Language: English;French
ISBN: 085989567X

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 illuminates a fascinating range of optical media from the twelfth century to the turn of the twentieth. First published in French in 1994, Laurent Mannoni's account projects a broad picture of the subject area now known as pre-cinema.Starting with 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 andThis work seeks to throw light on a range of optical media from the 12th century to the turn of the 20th. 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.