Picturing Mexico
From the Camera Lucida to Film
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Gewicht:
1480 g
Format:
296x238x25 mm
Beschreibung:
The book offers new insights into the relation of film to the tradition of 19th-century optical transcription, highlighting practices that help characterise "cinemabefore the advent of cinema.
Chapter One: To Mexico and Central America via Jerusalem, Thebes, and Baalbek: three panoramas after CatherwoodChapter Two: The camera lucida, topographical representation, and the picturesque in early-nineteenth-century Britain and MexicoChapter Three: Investigating antiquities in Central America and Yucatán before the 1840s, and the reception of Stephens and CatherwoodChapter Four: Picturing antiquities in Central America and Yucatán in the 1840s: Stephens and CatherwoodChapter Five: Picturing Mexico in lithographs, photographs, and filmEpilogueNotesSelectedBibliographyIllustrationsIndex