User:Quinten swagerman/thesis outline

optical toys / visual perception / attractions

• identify optical toys. phenakistoscope / zoetrope / praxinoscope / etc.

• early research into motion perception and how it relates to those optical devices, explore this history. joseph plateau / william horner / purkinje, and what they wrote. (the difficulty being that for example horner wrote from a mathametical perspective).

• the concept of persistence of vision / a dated concept / how it is updated now / but, shall i go so particular?

• the popular usage of optical toys in the 19th century / what loops where shown / how it faded (stephen herbert - a history of pre-cinema)

• the concept of cinema of attractions (a concept formulated by tom gunning that says that film before 1906 had a different relationship to its viewer then after, it being about the fascination with the image and movement itself, not the narrative) in relation to early optical devices