Disappearing Tricks: Silent Film, Houdini, and the New Magic of the Twentieth Century Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

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

Reveals how professional magicians shaped the early history of cinema. This book focuses on the work of the professional illusionists who actually made magic with moving pictures between 1895 and 1929. It combines film and theatre history to uncover the evidence of the exchanges between magic and filmmaking in the United States and France.Read More

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  • Blackwell

    Disappearing Tricks revisits the golden age of theatrical magic and silent film to reveal how professional magicians shaped the early history of cinema. While others have called upon magic as merely an evocative metaphor for the wonders of cinema...

  • 0252076974
  • 9780252076978
  • Matthew Solomon
  • 25 March 2010
  • University of Illinois Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 200
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