Performing dark arts : a cultural history of conjuring /: a cultural history of conjuring. (©2007)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Michael Mangan.
• Other Names: Mangan, Michael, 1953-
• Contents: <span style="font-family: Arial;">Preface and acknowledgements <span style="font-family: Arial;">Introduction: Magic and performance <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;">Chapter One – <span style="font-family: Arial;">Binaries: early attitudes to conjuring <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;">Chapter Two <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700;"> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700;">– <span style="font-family: Arial;">‘The evil Spirit has a hand in the Tricks of these Jugglers’: <span style="font-family: Arial;">conjuring and Christian orthodoxy <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;">Chapter Three <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700;"> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700;">– <span style="font-family: Arial;">‘Fire and faggot to burn the witch’? Conjuring between <span style="font-family: Arial;">belief and unbelief in early modern England <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;">Chapter Four <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700;"> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700;">– <span style="font-family: Arial;">On the margins: criminals and fraudsters <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;">Chapter Five <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700;"> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700;">– <span style="font-family: Arial;">On the boundaries of the human <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;">Chapter Six <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700;"> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700;">– <span style="font-family: Arial;">Acting and not-acting: Robert-Houdin <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;">Chapter Seven <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700;"> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700;">– <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;"> <span style="font-family: Arial;">Before your very eyes: life, death and liveness <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;">Chapter Eight <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700;"> – <span style="font-family: Arial;">Narrative ambiguity and contested meanings: <span style="font-family: Arial;">interpreting Harry Houdini <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;">Chapter Nine <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700;"> – <span style="font-family: Arial;">Mediums and the media <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;">Chapter Ten <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700;"> – <span style="font-family: Arial;">Magic, media and postmodernism <span style="font-family: Arial;">Endnotes <span style="font-family: Arial;">Bibliography
• Publisher Details: Bristol, UK Chicago, USA : Intellect
• Publication Date: 2007
• Copyright Date: 2007
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxvi, 252 pages)
• Subjects: 793.8; Magic tricks -- History; Magic tricks -- Psychological aspects; Performance art -- Psychological aspects; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781841509853; 9781841501499; 1841501492; 1280811501; 9781280811500
• Related ISBNs: 184150985X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-252).; Note: Print version record.
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