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oapen-20.500.12657-625312024-03-28T08:18:24Z Techniques of Illusion Rein, Katharina Magic, Illusion, Theatre, Performance, Golden Age thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AB The arts: general topics thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATX Other performing arts::ATXF Conjuring and magic thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATD Theatre studies thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATX Other performing arts::ATXC Circus and circus skills thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATX Other performing arts::ATXD Comedy and stand-up thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATD Theatre studies::ATDH Theatre: technical and background skills This book explores stage conjuring during its “Golden Age”, from 1860 to 1910. This study provides close readings highlighting four paradigmatic illusions of the time that stand in for different kinds of illusions typical of stage magic in the “Golden Age” and analyses them within their cultural and media-historical context: “Pepper’s Ghost”, the archetypical mirror illusion; “The Vanishing Lady”, staging a teleportation in a time of a dizzying acceleration of transport; “the levitation”, simulating weightlessness with the help of an extended steel machinery; and “The Second Sigh”, a mind-reading illusion using up-to-date communication technologies. These close readings are completed by writings focusing on visual media and expanding the scope backwards and forwards in time, roughly to 1800 and to 2000. This exploration will be of great interest to students and scholars in theatre and performance studies. 2023-04-24T10:19:08Z 2023-04-24T10:19:08Z 2023 book 9781032220796 9781032220802 9781003271086 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/62531 eng Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003271086 10.4324/9781003271086 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 3a7421b7-f021-45d5-adde-ced7a5e7849e 9781032220796 9781032220802 9781003271086 Routledge open access
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This book explores stage conjuring during its “Golden Age”, from 1860 to 1910.
This study provides close readings highlighting four paradigmatic illusions of the time that stand in for different kinds of illusions typical of stage magic in the “Golden Age” and analyses them within their cultural and media-historical context: “Pepper’s Ghost”, the archetypical mirror illusion; “The Vanishing Lady”, staging a teleportation in a time of a dizzying acceleration of transport; “the levitation”, simulating weightlessness with the help of an extended steel machinery; and “The Second Sigh”, a mind-reading illusion using up-to-date communication technologies. These close readings are completed by writings focusing on visual media and expanding the scope backwards and forwards in time, roughly to 1800 and to 2000.
This exploration will be of great interest to students and scholars in theatre and performance studies.
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