Michael Mangan 
Performing Dark Arts [PDF ebook] 
A Cultural History of Conjuring

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Magic and conjuring inhabit the boundaries and the borderlands of performance. The conjuror’s act of demonstrating the apparently impossible, the uncanny, the marvellous, or the grotesque challenges the spectator’s sense of reality. It brings him or her up against their own assumptions about how the world works; at its most extreme, it asks the spectator to re-evaluate his or her sense of the limits of the human. Performing Dark Arts is an exploration of the paradox of the conjuror, the actor who pretends to be a magician. It aims to illuminate the history of conjuring by examining it in the context of performance studies, and to throw light on aspects of performance studies by testing them against the art of conjuring. The book examines not only the performances of individual magicians from Dedi to David Blaine, but also the broader cultural contexts in which their performances were received, and the meanings which they have attracted.

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Michael Mangan holds the Chair in Drama at Exeter University. His main research interests lie in theatre and society – more specifically, he has published in the subjects of theatre and gender, Shakespeare and Renaissance theatre, the cultural history of popular performance, and contemporary British theatre. He has also worked as a playwright, a director, a literary manager, a dramaturg and an actor.

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 282 ● ISBN 9781841509853 ● File size 2.3 MB ● Publisher Intellect Books Ltd ● City Bristol ● Country GB ● Published 2007 ● Edition 1 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 5618702 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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