Performing Magic on the Western Stage -

Performing Magic on the Western Stage

From the Eighteenth Century to the Present

L. Hass, F. Coppa, J. Peck (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
240 Seiten
2009 | 1st ed. 2008
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-37464-9 (ISBN)
106,95 inkl. MwSt
Performing Magic on the Western Stage examines magic as a performing art and as a meaningful social practice, linking magic to cultural arenas such as religion, finance, gender, and nationality and profiling magicians from Robert-Houdin to Pen& Teller.

Karen Dearborn Graham M. Jones Mary Lawlor Robert E. Neale Susan L. Schwartz Matthew Solomon Christopher Stahl

Life Magic and Staged Magic: A Hidden Intertwining; L.Hass The Family Romance of Modern Magic: Contesting Robert Houdin's Cultural Legacy in Contemporary France; G.M.Jones Magicians and the Magic of Hollywood Cinema during the 1920s; M.Solomon The Body Immaterial: Magicians' Assistants and the Performance of Labor; F.Coppa Conjuring Capital: Magic and Finance From Eighteenth-Century London to the New Las Vegas; J.Peck The Sacred and the Sleight of Hand in American Indian Gaming; M.Lawlor Outdoing Ching Ling Foo; C.Stahl Intersecting Illusions: Performing Magic, Disability and Gender; K.Dearborn Through A Glass Darkly: Magic and Religion in Western Thought and Practice; S.L.Schwartz Illusions About Illusions; R.E.Neale

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
Vorwort Kenneth A. Loparo
Zusatzinfo 5 Illustrations, black and white; XIII, 240 p. 5 illus.
Verlagsort Basingstoke
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Schlagworte America • ART • Body • Cinema • Corpus • Eighteenth Century • France • Gender • Hollywood • India • Indian • Performance • present • Religion • stage
ISBN-10 1-349-37464-4 / 1349374644
ISBN-13 978-1-349-37464-9 / 9781349374649
Zustand Neuware
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