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Disappearing tricks silent film, Houdini, and the new magic of the twentieth century

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  • Author: Solomon, Matthew
    Date:
    Issued
    2013
    Contents:
    • An anti-spiritualist medium : stage magic and the beginnings of cinema
    • The death of magic? presentational performance and early film
    • Behind the curtain : Méliès at the Théâtre Robert-Houdin
    • Up-to-date magic : theatrical conjuring and the trick film
    • Houdini’s actuality magic : escaping the "ghost house" with moving pictures
    • Lost in transition : sensational fiction and the limits of narrative integration
    • Epilogue.
    Sujets: History | Houdini, Harry | Magic tricks | Magic tricks in motion pictures | Trick cinematography
    Original Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2010
    Language(s): English