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100 1 a| Kember, Joe,e| author.1| https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjrQrkPGwjb4WP7wWHt6PP=| ^A1483865;

245 10 a| Popular visual shows 1800-1914 :b| picturegoing from peep shows to film /c| Joe Kember, John Plunkett with Rosalind Leveridge.;

264 1 a| Oxford ;a| New York, NY :b| Oxford University Press,c| [2025];

300 a| xiii, 481 pages :b| illustrations (some color), map, facsimiles ;c| 24 cm;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 0 a| Introduction : From Shows to Networks -- Pictures, Pennies, and Peripatetic Pleasures -- Improving Illustration and the Illustration of Improvement, 1800-1880 -- Panoramas, Dioramas, and Public Hall Spectacles -- The Magic Lantern as Open Medium, 1880-1914 -- The Coevolution of Film Shows, 1896-1914 -- Conclusion : Historical Media Studies;

520 a| "This book tells the story of the growth of picturegoing as a popular habit between 1800 and 1914. Encouraged by urbanisation and changes in transportation, education, and leisure patterns, the regular and widespread provision of exhibitions and shows became a defining characteristic of cultural life. Painted panoramas and dioramas awed with enormous tableaux; the stereoscope immersed viewers in a 3D world; the many varieties of peepshow promised a marvellously garish experience of patriotic battles, gruesome murders, and far-off places. If that was not enough, the ever-versatile magic lantern projected hundreds of thousands of slides of every imaginable subject, from travelogues and temperance tales to illustrated hymns and adaptations of popular fiction. Then, after 1896, audiences experienced the cinematograph, and were able to enjoy film at the many fixed venue cinemas that emerged from around 1908. Moving and projected images were displayed not only in town halls, theatres, and other large exhibition spaces, but also in workhouses, schools, churches, empty shops, and fairgrounds. Picturegoing, in all its variety, became a national pastime, integrating itself more and more pervasively into the structures of everyday life as the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries progressed. Drawing on a wealth of new evidence, this book details the shows that were on offer, where and what they were, the networks and infrastructure they existed within, and, above all, how their audiences experienced them"--c| Publisher's website.;

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700 1 a| Plunkett, John,d| 1974-e| author.1| https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjtdH8gMkWWrhYvc4jwPkP=| ^A785080;

700 1 a| Leveridge, Rosalind,e| author.=| ^A1484652;

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Popular visual shows 1800-1914 : picturegoing from peep shows to film / Joe Kember, John Plunkett with Rosalind Leveridge.

Author/creator	Kember, Joe author.
Other author	Plunkett, John, 1974- author.
Other author	Leveridge, Rosalind, author.
Format	Book
Publication	Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
Copyright Date	©2025
Description	xiii, 481 pages : illustrations (some color), map, facsimiles ; 24 cm
Subjects	Peep shows--Great Britain. --History. --19th century. Magic lantern shows--Great Britain. --History. Motion pictures--Great Britain. --History. --20th century.

Contents	Introduction : From Shows to Networks -- Pictures, Pennies, and Peripatetic Pleasures -- Improving Illustration and the Illustration of Improvement, 1800-1880 -- Panoramas, Dioramas, and Public Hall Spectacles -- The Magic Lantern as Open Medium, 1880-1914 -- The Coevolution of Film Shows, 1896-1914 -- Conclusion : Historical Media Studies
Abstract	"This book tells the story of the growth of picturegoing as a popular habit between 1800 and 1914. Encouraged by urbanisation and changes in transportation, education, and leisure patterns, the regular and widespread provision of exhibitions and shows became a defining characteristic of cultural life. Painted panoramas and dioramas awed with enormous tableaux; the stereoscope immersed viewers in a 3D world; the many varieties of peepshow promised a marvellously garish experience of patriotic battles, gruesome murders, and far-off places. If that was not enough, the ever-versatile magic lantern projected hundreds of thousands of slides of every imaginable subject, from travelogues and temperance tales to illustrated hymns and adaptations of popular fiction. Then, after 1896, audiences experienced the cinematograph, and were able to enjoy film at the many fixed venue cinemas that emerged from around 1908. Moving and projected images were displayed not only in town halls, theatres, and other large exhibition spaces, but also in workhouses, schools, churches, empty shops, and fairgrounds. Picturegoing, in all its variety, became a national pastime, integrating itself more and more pervasively into the structures of everyday life as the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries progressed. Drawing on a wealth of new evidence, this book details the shows that were on offer, where and what they were, the networks and infrastructure they existed within, and, above all, how their audiences experienced them"-- Publisher's website.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other form	Online version: Kember, Joe. Popular visual shows, 1800-1914. Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025] 9780191944987
ISBN	9780192849861
ISBN	0192849867 (hardback)
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