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Description: Disappearing Tricks : Silent Film, Houdini, and the New Magic of the Twentieth Century, Paperback by Solomon, Matthew, ISBN 0252076974, ISBN-13 9780252076978, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Disappearing Tricks revisits the golden age of theatrical magic and silent film to reveal how professional magicians shaped the early history of cinema. Where others have called upon magic as merely an evocative metaphor for the wonders of cinema, Matthew Solomon focuses on the work of the professional illusionists who actually made magic with moving pictures between 1895 and 1929. The first to reveal fully how powerfully magic impacted the development of cinema, th combines film and theater history to uncover new evidence of the exchanges between magic and filmmaking in the United States and France during the silent period. Chapters detailing the stage and screen work of Harry Houdini and Georges Méliès show how each transformed theatrical magic to create innovative cinematic effects and thrilling new exploits for twentieth-century mass audiences. Th also considers the previously overlooked roles of anti-spiritualism and presentational performance in silent film. Highlighting early cinema's relationship to the performing body, visual deception, storytelling, and the occult, Solomon treats cinema and stage magic as overlapping practices that together revise our understanding of the origins of motion pictures and cinematic spectacle.

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Book Title: Disappearing Tricks : Silent Film, Houdini, and the New Magic of

Number of Pages: 200 Pages

Language: English

Publication Name: Disappearing Tricks : Silent Film, Houdini, and the New Magic of the Twentieth Century

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Subject: Theater / History & Criticism, Magic, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Film / History & Criticism, Acoustics & Sound, Techniques / Cinematography & Videography

Item Height: 0.7 in

Publication Year: 2010

Item Weight: 12 Oz

Type: Textbook

Subject Area: Performing Arts, Technology & Engineering, Photography, Games & Activities, Biography & Autobiography

Item Length: 9 in

Author: Matthew Solomon

Item Width: 6 in

Format: Trade Paperback

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