What Made Cinema? Essays on Visual Culture and Early Film - by Ian Christie (Paperback)

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Book Synopsis "Immersion" is everywhere in entertainment today. But this promise didn't start with digital media - it was over two hundred years ago that Georgian London became the world centre of such immersive spectacles as the Leicester Square Panorama, the Eidophusikon's magical moving pictures with music, and a hundred years later, cinema itself was born in the capital's giant music halls. No - not in Paris or New York, but first and foremost at the Empire and the Alhambra in Leicester Square. In essays written across thirty years, Ian Christie explores how these novelties gave London an appetite for media innovation, with the earliest film studios ringed around the city - as their suc…