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| Series Foreword | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Preface: The Formation of a Panoramaniac | |
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| Introduction: Moving Panorama-A Missing Medium | |
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| The Panorama and Things Panoramic | |
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| From a Stationary to a Mobile Medium | |
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| From the Shadow of the Mighty Rotunda | |
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| The Painted, the Performed, and the Discursive Panorama | |
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| Tracing the Topoi: The Media Archaeological Approach | |
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| From Oblivion to Resurrection: A Road Map | |
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| The Incubation Era: Antecedents and Anticipations | |
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| Moving Panorama-An Etymological Excavation | |
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| Offshoot of the Panorama, or a Form of Visual Storytelling? | |
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| Peeping at Picture Rolls | |
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| Parklands in Boxes: Carmontelle's Transparencies | |
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| Miniature Panoramas: From Popish Plots to Altona's Entertainments | |
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| Large as Life, and Moving: The Peristrephic Panorama | |
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| The Elusive Messrs. Marshall | |
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| The Apparatus According to an Eyewitness | |
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| Circularity, Stasis, and Motion-The French Connection | |
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| Uncle lack at the Moving Panorama Show | |
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| "Perioramas" of the Mind, or the Discursive Dimension | |
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| Rolling Across the Stage: The Moving Panorama and the Theater | |
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| Spectacle Takes Over: From Servandoni to De Loutherbourg | |
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| The Moving Pictures of the Eidophusikon | |
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| Eidophusikon, Mechanical Theaters, and the Realm of Spectacles | |
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| The Panorama, the Pantomime, and the Art of Heterogeneity | |
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| Virtual Voyaging with the Balloon Panorama | |
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| The Lure of the Market and Perfection in Invisibility | |
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| Transformed by the Light: The Diorama and the "Dioramas" | |
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| The Invention and Dissemination of a New Spectacle | |
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| The Diorama as a Vision Machine | |
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| "This Wondrous Exhibition," or the Diorama's Reception | |
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| The Metamorphosis into an Itinerant Attraction | |
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| Panoramania: The Mid-Century Moving Panorama Craze | |
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| Dry Season on Rainy Islands | |
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| The Moving Panorama Penetrates American Culture | |
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| John Banvard, or the Making of a Myth | |
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| Trips to the World and the Heart: Panoramic Genres in America | |
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| The American Invasion of the British Isles | |
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| Countering with Quality: British Productions of the Panoramania Era | |
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| Panoramania in Practice: Albert Smith and his Moving Panoramas | |
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| The Natural History of a Bohemian | |
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| At Home on the Overland Trail | |
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| The Anatomy of an Alpine Spectacle | |
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| Nougat Glac� de Mont Blanc, or Media Marketing | |
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| Barnumized? | |
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| A Parade of Epigones, or Anonymous Afterlives | |
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| An Excavation: The Moving Panorama Performance | |
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| Parodying the Panorama | |
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| Constructing Continuity | |
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| Discontinuity as Strategy | |
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| Intermedial Tug of War: Panoramas and Magic Lanterns | |
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| By Any Medium Available: The Civil War and the Panorama Trade | |
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| The Challenge and Dissemination of Dissolving Views | |
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| Panoramas and the Coming of Photography | |
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| A War of Discourses | |
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| Sensory Bombardment: A Medium's Final Fanfares | |
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| The Myriorama as a Roadshow Attraction | |
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| The Th�atre Morieux Time Capsule | |
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| The Past as Future, or the Panorama Revival | |
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| Panoramas, Patents, and the Universal Exposition of 1900 | |
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| "Vehicular Amplification," or the Quest for Immersion | |
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| Imagination in Motion: The Discursive Panorama | |
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| Toward a Shadow History of the Moving Panorama | |
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| The Literary Absorption of the Moving Panorama | |
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| Exercises in Perception: From Stationary to Moving Panoramas | |
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| The Cranking God: Panoramas and the Religious Imagination | |
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| Mind, Memory, and Consciousness: Panoramic Parables | |
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| Conclusion: From Panoramas to Media Culture | |
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| Figures on the Screens, or Things Left Unsaid | |
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| What Is Media Culture? | |
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| From Illusions to Interactions | |
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| List of Surviving Moving Panoramas (Compiled with Suzanne Wray and Peter Morelli) | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |