Since the early nineteenth century, European pedagogical theory has stimulated a didactic turn towards the visual as an alternative to textual mediations of knowledge through books and lectures. Pedagogues and policymakers who strove for a more child-centred approach to teaching were soon joined by media producers and marketers in their aim to transform the classroom…

Faith in a Beam of Light: Magic Lantern and Belief in Western Europe, 1880-1940 presents a collection of articles about the uses fo the lantern by religious and spiritual groups. The authors are Margo Buelens-Terryn, Wouter Egelmeers, Sébastien Fevry Evelien Jonckheere, Iason Jongepier, Frank Kessler, Sabine Lenk, Natalijy Majsova, Philippe Marion, Bart G. Moens, Dominique Nasta,…

Issue of Cahiers de narratologie containing six articles for a special focus entitled “Défilement, projection, performance. La lanterne magique comme dispositif narratif”, exploring the narrative dimension of magic lantern performances. The authors of this section are Robin Cauche, Sébastien Fevry, Anne Gourdet-Marès, Philippe Marion, Kurt Vanhoutte, and Adeline Werry. The journal issue is available in Open Access…

Sarah Dellmann & Frank Kessler (ed.) A Million Pictures. Magic Lantern Slides in the History of Learning. New Barnet: John Libbey, 2020. Proceedings from 2017 A Million Pictures conference in Utrecht. 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….

Early Popular Visual Culture, Volume 17, Issue 3-4 (2019) Guest Editor: Joe Kember

Early Popular Visual Culture, Volume 17, Issue 1 (2019) Guest Editor: Joe Kember