Add to ORKGIncludes 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 darkl...
In contemporary America, there is some interesting phenomenon, which is called a magic. Frequently i...
The Magician's Apparatus is an essay for the exhibition catalogue of The Collector's Room Exhibition...
"This volume explores illusionism as a much larger phenomenon than optical illusion, magic shows, or...
© 2010 Gala HingstonThis thesis examines the history of magic in Western culture, particularly focus...
The research focuses on magic - the practice of performing tricks and illusions on stage aiming at e...
Many Magics is an ‘informance’ that blurs the distinct between true biography and invented persona. ...
This paper advances the case for how performance magic can be used as a larger medium for communicat...
The author seeks to establish a historical context for his own performance practice, which combines ...
By the late nineteenth and early twenty century both the United States and Europe were experiencing ...
Includes index.Publisher's advertisements, p. [1-6] at end.Cf. Toole-Stott, R. Conjuring, 481.Bound ...
How did he do that? This question has been on the lips of audience members since magicians first beg...
Publisher\u27s Description: Source material relating to popular entertainment in America, Britain an...
This examination of early modern stage magic overviews its occurrence in the earliest type of mixed-...
In the early twentieth Century, the debate about ghosts, in which sceptics and believers opposed one...
Original and comprehensive, Magic in the Ancient Greek World takes the reader inside both the social...
In contemporary America, there is some interesting phenomenon, which is called a magic. Frequently i...
The Magician's Apparatus is an essay for the exhibition catalogue of The Collector's Room Exhibition...
"This volume explores illusionism as a much larger phenomenon than optical illusion, magic shows, or...
© 2010 Gala HingstonThis thesis examines the history of magic in Western culture, particularly focus...
The research focuses on magic - the practice of performing tricks and illusions on stage aiming at e...
Many Magics is an ‘informance’ that blurs the distinct between true biography and invented persona. ...
This paper advances the case for how performance magic can be used as a larger medium for communicat...
The author seeks to establish a historical context for his own performance practice, which combines ...
By the late nineteenth and early twenty century both the United States and Europe were experiencing ...
Includes index.Publisher's advertisements, p. [1-6] at end.Cf. Toole-Stott, R. Conjuring, 481.Bound ...
How did he do that? This question has been on the lips of audience members since magicians first beg...
Publisher\u27s Description: Source material relating to popular entertainment in America, Britain an...
This examination of early modern stage magic overviews its occurrence in the earliest type of mixed-...
In the early twentieth Century, the debate about ghosts, in which sceptics and believers opposed one...
Original and comprehensive, Magic in the Ancient Greek World takes the reader inside both the social...
In contemporary America, there is some interesting phenomenon, which is called a magic. Frequently i...
The Magician's Apparatus is an essay for the exhibition catalogue of The Collector's Room Exhibition...
"This volume explores illusionism as a much larger phenomenon than optical illusion, magic shows, or...