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The new Springer book,
The Cinema in Flux, by lifetime innovator Lenny Lipton, explores the history of cinema technology by upending the conception that the medium began at the end of the 19th century. A major thesis of the book is that cinema, the projection of motion, began with the invention of the magic lantern in the 17th century.
This book, and its more than 500 illustrations, many in colour, effectively visualizes the shift from real to apparent motion by means of an organization that divides cinema into historical epochs: The Glass Era, The Celluloid Era, and The Digital Era. This innovative classification system posits that designating the carrier of image information, which materially distinguishes that period s technology, effectively conveys the structure of the evolution of motion pictures in its entirety.