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Important PHANTASMAGORIA book announcement & Gothic Nightmares, the new TATE Britain exhibition. Dear Visual Media visitors, Nowadays the fascination and interest in the 'GOTHIC' genre is growing. The name is given to an art-genre and literature dealing with themes of terror and the supernatural. In April 2006, Dr. Mervyn Heard's new book 'Phantasmagoria: The Secret Life of the Magic Lantern' will be published by the Projection box. (The latter publisher - books & CD-roms - is specialized in recent studies in the Vintage Visual Media field; Pre-Cinema, optical entertainments, Early Cinema, including facsimile editions of rare books in related fields) As read on the announcing flyer you really can expect "a full-blooded account of an extraordinary theatrical ghost-raising entertainment" All on 312 pages, profusely illustrated! For more information on this book see: http://www.visual-media.be/publications.html <http://www.visual-media.be/publications.html> This is an announcement, as soon the book is available you will be informed by the mailing group. However, ordering information from Stephen Herbert is available from the above linked web page, just follow, since it will be a nightmare if you should miss this book. Why? Dr. Heard's new book is an inevitable source for the enthusiast in 'spectral pre-film & theatre techniques'. It offers an in depth study on a lesser known part of pre-cinematographic entertainment and popular theatre history. The Phantasmagoria genre came to his climax during and shortly after the French Revolution. The Pepper's Ghost theatre technique was a 19th. Century even more popular descendant of the Phantasmagoria, often performed in the Cabaret and small theatres. Dr. Mervyn Heard became involved in the TATE Britain's current exhibition, 'Gothic Nightmares, Fuseli, Blake and the Romantic Imagination'. For this exhibition he produced a Phantasmagoria recreation, using slides from various collections, including 'Early Visual Media' collection. The 'Phantasmagoria' was a kind of animated slide and puppet show with sound effects and shocking images giving spectators uncanny chills and thrills. The exhibition "Gothic Nightmares, Fuseli, Blake and the Romantic Imagination", is now running until 1 may 2006. For information on the exhibition follow the link on the exhibition page see: http://www.visual-media.be/exhibition.html <http://www.visual-media.be/publications.html> <http://www.visual-media.be/exhibition.html> "Gothic Nightmares" will explore the work of Henry Fuseli (1741-1825) and William Blake (1757-1827) in the context of the 'Gothic', the taste for fantastic and supernatural themes which dominated British culture from around 1770 to 1830. Featuring over 120 works by these artists and their contemporaries, the exhibition will create a vivid image of a period of cultural turmoil and daring artistic invention. A most informative and lavishly illustrated catalogue catalogue is available from the TATE's bookshop and will be announced soon on Visual-Media publication page: http://www.visual-media.be/publications.html <http://www.visual-media.be/publications.html> <http://www.visual-media.be/publications.html> It is of utmost importance to emphasis that for the first time this popular ghostly entertainment - THE PHANTASMAGORIA - is shown in the context of 'works of art' by well known painters such as Henry Fuseli (1741 - 1825), William Blake (1757 - 1827) & others in one of England's major museums or anywhere-else. Early Visual Media recently created his own mailing group on GOOGLE. Please register at http://groups.google.com/group/visual-media?lnk=srg <BLOCKED::http://groups.google.com/group/visual-media?lnk=srg> and stay informed via the web site's own group. With Gothic greetings, Thomas <http://www.visual-media.be/> http://www.visual-media.be/ * * Film-Philosophy Email Discussion Salon. After hitting 'reply' please always delete the text of the message you are replying to. To leave, send the message: leave film-philosophy to: [log in to unmask] For help email: [log in to unmask], not the salon. **