Rethinking the Phantasmagoria
An enclosure and three worlds
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21158060 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Francesco Casetti (0000-0002-0347-4688, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 349-373 |
| Publication date | 2022-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Visual Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1470-4129 • E-ISSN: 1741-2994 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/14704129221112975 |
| OpenAlex | W4313464523 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 19 |
The Phantasmagoria was not just a spectacle based on projections of images of ghosts and monsters. Relying upon new archival findings, this article claims that the Phantasmagoria was instead an optical–environmental dispositive that combined an enclosed space with the exploration of three worlds: the otherworld of the Dead, the physical world of Nature, and the inner world of spectators’ Interiority. While its ultimate goal was to provide an unconventional map of the three domains that were of the greatest interest at the time, its combined interest in a spatial arrangement and a visual address suggests the need for a new, rhizomatic archaeology in which to include the screen-based dispositives
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Enclosure · Spectacle · Visual arts · Art History and Market Analysis · Cinema and Media Studies · Computer Science · Law · Philosophy · Visual Culture and Art Theory
Ghostly Apparitions
On the Screen
The Female Thermometer
The Imaginary
The Cinema of Attractions Early Film, Its Spectator and the Avant-Garde
Discipline and Punish
Virtual Art
After the Map
Géricault, the Panorama, and Sites of Reality in the Early Nineteenth Century
The Phantasmagoric Dispositif
The Cinema, or The Imaginary Man
Communication as Culture, Revised Edition
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |