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

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  • Author: Solomon, Matthew
    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.
    Subject(s): History
    Original Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2010
    Language(s): English

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History
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Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2010

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97805252076978

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