{"product_id":"shadows-in-a-phantom-eye-nocturne-group-9781917285001","title":"Shadows in a Phantom Eye, Volume 1 (1872-1907): Attractions \u0026 Aberrations In The Moving Image 1872-1949","description":"\u003cp\u003eSince the late 19th century, film has been the ultimate medium by which to express and illuminate the darker, wilder recesses of man's imagination. An alchemical convergence of magic lantern experiments and new photographic technology led to the production of the very first moving images, including visual captures of magic, mystery, violence, cruelty, crime, sex, nudity, devilry and death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSHADOWS IN A PHANTOM EYE is an extensive and unprecedented 15-volume book series for those wishing to explore an alternative global history of the moving image in its inaugural decades - a history that reveals a wild, often disturbing and provocative world which includes Hollywood but also stretches far, far beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSHADOWS IN A PHANTOM EYE Volume 1 reveals a flickering carnival of attractions and aberrations, from the ground-breaking motion capture experiments conceived by Eadweard Muybridge in 1872, through the first protean film eruptions of Georges Méliès in the 1890s, and up to 1907 when Pathé Fréres led the world in the realm of film exploitation. This volume references well over 1,000 films from all countries and reproduces around 250 rare photographic images, posters and illustrations, many newly unearthed from international film archives and never before published.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nocturne Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1917285000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781917285001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Black Gas Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/13\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 218\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.59d","brand":"Nocturne Group","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48520439398655,"sku":"9781917285001","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f7bc3821-32a6-4410-9601-48cf76a7c512.jpg?v=1778742273","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/shadows-in-a-phantom-eye-nocturne-group-9781917285001","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}