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  • Performing Magic on the Western Stage: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present

    Performing Magic on the Western Stage by Hass, L.; Coppa, F.; Peck, J.;

    From the Eighteenth Century to the Present

    Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 1st ed. 2008
    • Publisher Palgrave Macmillan US
    • Date of Publication 8 January 2009
    • Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book

    • ISBN 9781349374649
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages240 pages
    • Size 216x140 mm
    • Weight 454 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations XIII, 240 p. 5 illus. Illustrations, black & white
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    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.

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    Table of Contents:

    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

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