TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rein,Katharina
TI  - Techniques of Illusion: A Cultural and Media History of Stage Magic in the Late Nineteenth Century
SN  - 9781003271086
PY  - 2023///
PB  - Taylor & Francis
KW  - Circus and circus skills
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Comedy and stand-up
KW  - Conjuring and magic
KW  - The arts: general topics
KW  - Theatre studies
KW  - Theatre: technical and background skills
KW  - Magic, Illusion, Theatre, Performance, Golden Age
N1  - Free-to-read
N2  - 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
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/62531
ER  -