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Techniques of Illusion

A Cultural and Media History of Stage Magic in the Late Nineteenth Century

dc.contributor.authorRein, Katharina
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-26T04:21:28Z
dc.date.available2023-04-26T04:21:28Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.date.submitted2023-04-24T10:19:08Z
dc.identifierhttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/62531
dc.identifier.urihttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/99559
dc.description.abstractThis book explores stage conjuring during its “Golden Age”, from 1860 to 1910. This study provides close readings highlighting four paradigmatic illusions of the time that stand in for different kinds of illusions typical of stage magic in the “Golden Age” and analyses them within their cultural and media-historical context: “Pepper’s Ghost”, the archetypical mirror illusion; “The Vanishing Lady”, staging a teleportation in a time of a dizzying acceleration of transport; “the levitation”, simulating weightlessness with the help of an extended steel machinery; and “The Second Sigh”, a mind-reading illusion using up-to-date communication technologies. These close readings are completed by writings focusing on visual media and expanding the scope backwards and forwards in time, roughly to 1800 and to 2000. This exploration will be of great interest to students and scholars in theatre and performance studies.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.rightsopen access
dc.subject.otherMagic, Illusion, Theatre, Performance, Golden Age
dc.subject.otherthema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AB The arts: general topics
dc.subject.otherthema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATX Other performing arts::ATXF Conjuring and magic
dc.subject.otherthema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATD Theatre studies
dc.subject.otherthema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATX Other performing arts::ATXC Circus and circus skills
dc.subject.otherthema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATX Other performing arts::ATXD Comedy and stand-up
dc.subject.otherthema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATD Theatre studies::ATDH Theatre: technical and background skills
dc.titleTechniques of Illusion
dc.title.alternativeA Cultural and Media History of Stage Magic in the Late Nineteenth Century
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.4324/9781003271086
oapen.relation.isPublishedByfa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0
oapen.relation.hasChapterChapter Introduction
oapen.relation.hasChapter4ba310e1-77f1-4af9-b787-a859e7119bc4
oapen.relation.isbn9781032220796
oapen.relation.isbn9781032220802
oapen.relation.isbn9781003271086
oapen.imprintRoutledge


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