Performing Magic on the Western Stage Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Springer
• File Size : 38,6 Mb
• Release Date : 08 December 2008

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

• Publisher : Taylor & Francis
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• Release Date : 03 May 2023

This book explores stage conjuring during its “golden age,” from about 1860 to 1910. This study provides close readings highlighting four paradigmatic illusions of the time that stand in for different kinds

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 25 November 2021

This volume explores illusionism as a much larger phenomenon than optical illusion, magic shows, or special effects, as a vital part of how we perceive, process, and shape the world

• Publisher : Springer
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• Release Date : 15 October 2014

Drawing on traditional archival research, reception theory, cultural histories of slumming, and recent work in critical theory on literary representations of poverty, Westgate argues that the productions of slum plays

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• File Size : 42,6 Mb
• Release Date : 01 October 2018

India's association with magicians goes back thousands of years. Conjurors and illusionists dazzled the courts of Hindu maharajas and Mughal emperors. As British dominion spread over the subcontinent, such wonder-workers

• Publisher : Springer
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• Release Date : 09 November 2016

Spanish Golden Age drama has resurfaced in recent years, however scholarly analysis has not kept pace with its popularity. This book problematizes and analyzes the approaches to staging reconstruction taken

• Publisher : Springer
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• Release Date : 10 July 2014

Examining twenty-five years of theatre history, this book covers the major plays that feature representations of the Industrial Workers of the World. American class movement and class divisions have long

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 14 July 2016

This book charts the history of modern magic across India, China and Japan, analyzing representations in the cultural imagination of the West.

• Publisher : Open Book Publishers
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• Release Date : 27 May 2022

In Performing Deception, Brian Rappert reconstructs the practice of entertainment magic by analysing it through the lens of perception, deception and learning, as he goes about studying conjuring himself. Through

• Publisher : Springer
• File Size : 53,6 Mb
• Release Date : 30 December 2018

This book develops media archaeological approaches to theatre and intermediality. As an age-old art form, theatre has always embraced ‘new’ media. To create theatrical effects and optical illusions, theatre makers