Events
Events for Monday, April 4, 2022
2:00 pm
Magic lantern: seeing far, seeing self and other delights in Méliès’s Lanterne Magique, Hoffmann’s Rat Krespel and Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann – Gabriela Cruz, University of Michigan
The stupendous impact of magic lantern technology on the imaginative labors of the romantic generation has long been recognized in scholarship about seeing and gazing. Less understood, however, is the mobilization of the apparatus for re-imagining voice, singing and song during the 19th-century. This presentation takes its point of departure from an eccentric assemblage of … Continued
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