Disappearing Tricks: Silent Film, Houdini, and the New Magic of the Twentieth Century
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This work revisits the golden age of theatrical magic and silent film to reveal how professional magicians shaped the early history of cinema. The author 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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Data sheet
- Name of the Author
- Matthew
Solomon - Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780252035104
- Release date
- 2010
