Preface: The Formation of a Panoramaniac
Introduction: Moving Panorama - a Missing Medium
The Incubation Era: Antecedents and Anticipations
Large as Life, and Moving: The Peristrephic Panorama
Rolling Across the Stage: The Moving Panorama and the Theatre
Transformed By The Light: The Diorama and the "dioramas"
The Panoramania, or The Mid-Century Moving Panorama Craze
Panoramania in Practice: Albert Smith and his Moving Panoramas
The Moving Panorama Performance: an Excavation
Intermedial Tug of War, or Panoramas and Magic Lanterns
Sensory Bombardment: a Medium's Final Fanfares
The Discursive Transfiguration of the Moving Panorama
Conclusion: From Panoramas to Media Culture.