[Commlist] new book: A Million Pictures: Magic Lantern Slides in the History of Learning

We would like to announce a new publication from John Libbey Publishing, 
which we hope will be of interest.

*A Million Pictures***

Magic Lantern Slides in the History of Learning

*Edited by Sarah Dellmann & Frank Kessler***

*_https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9780861967353/a-million-pictures/ 
<https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9780861967353/a-million-pictures/>_**__*

*Receive a 20% discount online:*

*CSLS2020*

Slides for the magic or optical lantern were a major tool for knowledge 
transfer in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. 
Schools, universities, the church and many public and private 
institutions all over the world relied on the lantern for illustrated 
lectures and demonstrations. This volume brings together scholarly 
research on the educational uses of the optical lantern in different 
disciplines by international specialists, representing the state of the 
art of magic lantern research today. In addition, it contains a lab 
section with contributions by archivists and curators and performers 
reflecting on ways to preserve, present and re-use this immensely rich 
cultural heritage today.**

Authors of this collection of essays will include Janelle Blankenship, 
Karin Bienek, Stephen Bottomore, Richard Crangle, Sarah Dellmann, Ine 
van Dooren, Claire Dupr La Tour, Jenny Durrant, Francisco Javier Frutos 
Esteban, Anna Katharina Graskamp, Emily Hayes, Erkki Huhtamo, Lydia 
Jakobs, Martyn Jolly, Joe Kember, Frank Kessler, Machiko Kusahara, 
Sabine Lenk, Carmen López San Segundo, Ariadna Lorenzo Sunyer, Maria 
Mnnig, Ana David Mendes, Daniela Mller-Kolb, Alina Novik, Daniel 
Pitarch, Jordi Pons, Montse Puigdeval, Anglique Quillay, Angel Quintana 
Morraja, Nadezhda Stanulevich, Vanessa Toulmin, Jennifer Tucker, Kurt 
Vanhoutte, Mrcia Vilarigues, Ludwig Vogl-Bienek, Joseph Wachelder, 
Artemis Willis, Lee Wing Ki, Irene Suk Mei Wong, and Nele Wynants.*__*

**

*Sarah Dellman*is a media historian with an expertise in visual media of 
the 19th and early 20th centuries, mostly in Europe. She especially 
works on the magic lantern and early cinema, integrating archival, 
ethical, epistemological and intermedial perspectives as well as digital 
methods. After her PhD defense in 2015, Dellmann worked as researcher 
and coordinator in the research project//A Million Pictures: Magic 
Lantern Slide Heritage as Artefacts in the Common European History of 
Learning (2015–2018) and was chief organiser of the projects 
international conference. She is editor at/Early Popular Visual Culture 
/and author of /Images of Dutchness: Popular Visual Culture, Early 
Cinema, and the Emergence of a National Clich, 1800–1914./*__*

*Frank Kessler*holds the chair of Media History at Utrecht University 
and is a former president of Domitor, the international association of 
research on early cinema.


*John Libbey Publishing**| August 2020 | 256pp | 9780861967353 | PB | 
£24.99**

*Price subject to change.

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