Preface: The Formation of a Panoramaniac -- Introduction: Moving Panorama-a Missing Medium -- The Incubation Era: Antecedents and Anticipations -- Large as Life, and Moving: The Peristrephic Panorama -- Rolling Across the Stage: The Moving Panorama and the Theatre -- Transformed By The Light: The Diorama and the "Dioramas" -- Panoramania: The Mid-Century Moving Panorama Craze -- Panoramania in Practice: Albert Smith and his Moving Panoramas -- An Excavation: The Moving Panorama Performance -- Intermedial Tug of War: Panoramas and Magic Lanterns -- Sensory Bombardment: A Medium's Final Fanfares -- Imagination in Motion: The Discursive Panorama -- Conclusion: From Panoramas to Media Culture.

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