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While picture-going or cinema is generally regarded as a twentieth-century activity, this book demonstrates that prior to the opening of Ireland’s first cinemas at the end of the first decade of the twentieth century, there were already huge numbers of people in Ireland, from all classes, regularly enjoying proto-cinematic experiences through such entertainments as magic lantern, or slide projector shows; exhibitions of immersive large-scale, and, at times, moving paintings known as panoramas; and tableaux vivants, or theatrically posed static representations of paintings, statues and events. Without these cultural forms, many developed by Irish inventors and pioneers, not only would cinema’s moving-pictures have been unimaginable, but so, too, would the physical spaces and locations in which films came to be screened in Ireland. Opening up a previously unexplored area in the Irish context, this book, together with its companion, Film exhibition and distribution in Ireland, 1909–2010, provides not only the first in-depth account of picture-going in Ireland, but also a fresh context for understanding the development of popular visual culture, including cinema, in the country. Kevin

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Author

Kevin Rockett and Emer Rockett

Publisher

Four Courts Press Ltd

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781846823152

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sports, Literary Fiction, History