Screen LibraryPerforming magic on the western stage：from the eighteenth century to the present
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| Group Author: | ; ; ; |
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| Published: |
Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY |
| Publication Dates: | c2008. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history |
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| Carrier Form: | xii, 240 p.: ill. ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0230607888 (alk. paper) 9780230607880 (alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | J828 |
| CLC: | J828-09 |
| Call Number: | J828-09/P438 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Life magic and staged magic: a hidden intertwining / Lawrence Hass -- The family romance of modern magic: contesting Robert-Houdin's cultural legacy in contemporary France / Graham M. Jones -- Magicians and the magic of Hollywood cinema during the 1920s / Matthew Solomon -- The body immaterial: magicians' assistants and the performance of labor / Francesca Coppa -- Conjuring capital: magic and finance from eighteenth-century London to the new Las Vegas / James Peck -- The sacred and the sleight of hand in American Indian gaming / Mary Lawlor -- Outdoing Ching Ling Foo / Christopher Stahl -- Intersecting illusions: performing magic, disability, and gender / Karen Dearborn -- Through a glass darkly: magic and religion in Western thought and practice / Susan L. Schwartz -- Illusions about illusions / Robert E. Neale. |