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Shadows in a Phantom Eye: Attractions & Aberrations in the Moving Image by The Nocturne Group

Trade Paperback – Black Gas Books

Since 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.

SHADOWS IN A PHANTOM EYE is the ultimate multi-volume guide 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.