Performing magic on the western stag...
Coppa, Francesca.

 

  • Performing magic on the western stage[electronic resource] :fromthe eighteenth century tothe present /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 793.809
    書名/作者: Performing magic on the western stage : fromthe eighteenth century tothe present // edited by Francesca Coppa, Lawrence Hass, and James Peck ; foreword by Eugene Burger.
    其他作者: Coppa, Francesca.
    出版者: New York, NY : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2008.
    面頁冊數: xii, 240 p. : : ill. ;; 22 cm.
    標題: Magic - History.
    ISBN: 9780230617124
    ISBN: 0230617123
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references and index.
    內容註: 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 theMagic 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.
    摘要、提要註: Performing Magic on the Western Stage examines magic as a performingart and meaningful socialpractice. The essays in this interdisciplinary collection analyze the work of numerous western theatrical conjurersand several non-western magical performances in their historical context. Throughout, the contributors link magic to cultural arenas such as religion, finance, gender, and nationality.All of the contributors areconnected to the internationally acclaimed Theory and Art of Magic program at Muhlenberg College, through which artists and scholars study the history, theory, and practiceof the magical arts.
    電子資源: access to fulltext (Palgrave)
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