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The Spectacular Century
Theatre & Visual Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century Project
7 episodes
6 days ago

Nineteenth century popular entertainments were colourful, vibrant and exciting. Listen in on conversations between experts Jim Davis, Kate Holmes, Kate Newey and Patricia Smyth. Hear us talk about what made entertainments like melodrama, pantomime, movement and art so much fun and why we should care in this AHRC-funded podcast.


To find out more visit http://theatreandvisualculture19.wordpress.com


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Nineteenth century popular entertainments were colourful, vibrant and exciting. Listen in on conversations between experts Jim Davis, Kate Holmes, Kate Newey and Patricia Smyth. Hear us talk about what made entertainments like melodrama, pantomime, movement and art so much fun and why we should care in this AHRC-funded podcast.


To find out more visit http://theatreandvisualculture19.wordpress.com


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Performing Arts
Arts,
Society & Culture,
Visual Arts
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Audiences in the Archive
The Spectacular Century
24 minutes 21 seconds
3 years ago
Audiences in the Archive

Kate Holmes and Kate Newey talk to Phil Wickham, Curator of the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum. Phil discusses how varied the museum’s nineteenth century holdings are and what they reveal about everyday audience-going.


For more on the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum, including how to visit, see: https://www.bdcmuseum.org.uk


People and Entertainments named in this podcast:

  • Filmmaker: Bill Douglas
  • Entertainment: Magic lanterns
  • Entertainment: Nineteenth-Century Panorama
  • Entertainment: Diorama Paintings
  • Entertainment: Peep (or Raree) Show
  • Performer: Albert Smith
  • Our YouTube Channel
  • YouTube video on Playbills
  • YouTube video on Music Hall Celebrity Postcards
  • Entertainment: Praxinoscope
  • Theatre Praxinoscope
  • Film: Douglas, Bill (1986) Comrades
  • Entertainment: Shadow Puppet Shows
  • Entertainment: Thaumotrope
  • YouTube video of Vampire Peep Show created as part of this project by Tony Lidington
  • Book: Della Porta, Giovanni Batista (1658) Natural Magick



Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Spectacular Century

Nineteenth century popular entertainments were colourful, vibrant and exciting. Listen in on conversations between experts Jim Davis, Kate Holmes, Kate Newey and Patricia Smyth. Hear us talk about what made entertainments like melodrama, pantomime, movement and art so much fun and why we should care in this AHRC-funded podcast.


To find out more visit http://theatreandvisualculture19.wordpress.com


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.