The phantasmagoria: From ghostly apparitions to multisensory fairground entertainment

The “phantasmagoria” is a term that originally referred to the ghost lantern shows first staged in France at the end of the 18th Century by the Belgian inventor and entertainer Étienne-Gaspard Robertson. The question to be addressed in this review concerns the link between the phantasmagoria (define...

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Main Author: Charles Spence
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Communication
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2022.894078/full