Performing magic on the western stage: from the eighteenth century to the present

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. INDICE: 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: Magiciansb 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

• ISBN: 978-0-230-60788-0
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 256
• Fecha Publicación: 08/01/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés