Performing Dark Arts

A Cultural History of Conjuring

Michael Mangan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

280 Seiten

2007
Intellect Books (Verlag)
978-1-84150-149-9 (ISBN)

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Magic and conjuring inhabit the boundaries and the borderlands of performance. The conjuror’s act of demonstrating the apparently impossible, the uncanny, the marvellous, or the grotesque challenges the spectator’s sense of reality. It brings him or her up against their own assumptions about how the world works; at its most extreme, it asks the spectator to re-evaluate his or her sense of the limits of the human. Performing Dark Arts is an exploration of the paradox of the conjuror, the actor who pretends to be a magician. It aims to illuminate the history of conjuring by examining it in the context of performance studies, and to throw light on aspects of performance studies by testing them against the art of conjuring. The book examines not only the performances of individual magicians from Dedi to David Blaine, but also the broader cultural contexts in which their performances were received, and the meanings which they have attracted.

Michael Mangan holds the Chair in Drama at Exeter University. His main research interests lie in theatre and society – more specifically, he has published in the subjects of theatre and gender, Shakespeare and Renaissance theatre, the cultural history of popular performance, and contemporary British theatre. He has also worked as a playwright, a director, a literary manager, a dramaturg and an actor.

Chapter 1: 'Binaries: early attitudes to conjuring' - Page 1 - Michael Mangan Chapter 2: '"The evil Spirit has a hand in the Tricks of these Jugglers": conjuring and Christian orthodoxy' - Page 19 - Michael Mangan Chapter 3: '"Fire and faggot to burn the witch?" Conjuring between belief and unbelief in early modern England' - Page 31 - Michael Mangan Chapter 4: 'On the margins: criminals and fraudsters' - Page 62 - Michael Mangan Chapter 5: 'On the boundaries of the human' - Page 76 - Michael Mangan Chapter 6: 'Acting and not-acting: Robert-Houdin' - Page 97 - Michael Mangan Chapter 7: 'Before your very eyes: life, death and liveness' - Page 116 - Michael Mangan Chapter 8: 'Narrative ambiguity and contested meanings: interpreting Harry Houdini' - Page 140 - Michael Mangan Chapter 9: 'Mediums and the media' - Page 162 - Michael Mangan Chapter 10: 'Magic, media and postmodernism' - Page 172 - Michael Mangan

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.3.2008
Reihe/Serie	Theatre and Consciousness
Verlagsort	Bristol
Sprache	englisch
Maße	172 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-84150-149-2 / 1841501492
ISBN-13	978-1-84150-149-9 / 9781841501499
Zustand	Neuware