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L. Hass & F. Coppa
Performing Magic on the Western Stage [PDF ebook]
From the Eighteenth Century to the Present

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Обкладинка L. Hass & F. Coppa: Performing Magic on the Western Stage (PDF)

Performing Magic on the Western Stage examines magic as a performing art and as a meaningful social practice, linking magic to cultural arenas such as religion, finance, gender, and nationality and profiling magicians from Robert-Houdin to Pen& Teller.

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

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Karen Dearborn Graham M. Jones Mary Lawlor Robert E. Neale Susan L. Schwartz Matthew Solomon Christopher Stahl

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Мова Англійська ● Формат PDF ● Сторінки 240 ● ISBN 9780230617124 ● Розмір файлу 1.7 MB ● Редактор L. Hass & F. Coppa ● Видавець Palgrave Macmillan US ● Місто New York ● Країна US ● Опубліковано 2008 ● Завантажувані 24 місяців ● Валюта EUR ● Посвідчення особи 4991610 ● Захист від копіювання Соціальний DRM

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