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Coppa, Francesca.

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Performing magic on the western stage = fromthe eighteenth century tothe present /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Performing magic on the western stage/ edited by Francesca Coppa, Lawrence Hass, and James Peck ; foreword by Eugene Burger.
Reminder of title:	fromthe eighteenth century tothe present /
other author:	Coppa, Francesca.
Published:	New York, NY :Palgrave Macmillan, : 2008.,
Description:	xii, 240 p. :ill. ;22 cm.
[NT 15003449]:	Life Magic and Staged Magic: A Hidden Intertwining / Lawrence Hass -- The Family Romance of Modern Magic: Contesting Robert Houdin's Cultural Legacy in Contemporary France/ Graham M. Jones -- Magicians and theMagic of Hollywood Cinema during the 1920s / Matthew Solomon -- The Body Immaterial: Magicians ; Assistants and the Performance of Labor/ Francesca Coppa -- Conjuring Capital: Magic and Finance From Eighteenth-Century London to the New Las Vegas / James Peck -- The Sacred and the Sleight of Hand in American Indian Gaming / Mary Lawlor -- Outdoing Ching Ling Foo/ Christopher Stahl -- Intersecting Illusions: Performing Magic, Disability and Gender / Karen Dearborn -- Through A Glass Darkly: Magic and Religion in Western Thought and Practice / Susan L. Schwartz -- Illusions About Illusions / Robert E. Neale.
Subject:	Magic - History. -
Online resource:	http://link.springer.com/10.1057/9780230617124access to fulltext (Palgrave)
ISBN:	0230617123

Performing magic on the western stage = fromthe eighteenth century tothe present /
Performing magic on the western stagefromthe eighteenth century tothe present /[electronic resource] :edited by Francesca Coppa, Lawrence Hass, and James Peck ; foreword by Eugene Burger. - 1st ed. - New York, NY :Palgrave Macmillan,2008. - xii, 240 p. :ill. ;22 cm. - Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history. - Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history..

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Life Magic and Staged Magic: A Hidden Intertwining / Lawrence Hass -- The Family Romance of Modern Magic: Contesting Robert Houdin's Cultural Legacy in Contemporary France/ Graham M. Jones -- Magicians and theMagic of Hollywood Cinema during the 1920s / Matthew Solomon -- The Body Immaterial: Magicians ; Assistants and the Performance of Labor/ Francesca Coppa -- Conjuring Capital: Magic and Finance From Eighteenth-Century London to the New Las Vegas / James Peck -- The Sacred and the Sleight of Hand in American Indian Gaming / Mary Lawlor -- Outdoing Ching Ling Foo/ Christopher Stahl -- Intersecting Illusions: Performing Magic, Disability and Gender / Karen Dearborn -- Through A Glass Darkly: Magic and Religion in Western Thought and Practice / Susan L. Schwartz -- Illusions About Illusions / Robert E. Neale.

Performing Magic on the Western Stage examines magic as a performingart and meaningful socialpractice. The essays in this interdisciplinary collection analyze the work of numerous western theatrical conjurersand several non-western magical performances in their historical context. Throughout, the contributors link magic to cultural arenas such as religion, finance, gender, and nationality.All of the contributors areconnected to the internationally acclaimed Theory and Art of Magic program at Muhlenberg College, through which artists and scholars study the history, theory, and practiceof the magical arts.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 0230617123Subjects--Topical Terms:

1098892
Magic
--History.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

542853
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: BF1595 / .P47 2008

Dewey Class. No.: 793.809

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