03525nam 2200601Ia 450 991045486400332120200520144314.00-674-03439-210.4159/9780674034396(CKB)1000000000805516(StDuBDS)AH23050674(SSID)ssj0000204318(PQKBManifestationID)12075027(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000204318(PQKBWorkID)10189102(PQKB)10947741(MiAaPQ)EBC3300571(Au-PeEL)EBL3300571(CaPaEBR)ebr10326116(OCoLC)923112059(DE-B1597)574387(DE-B1597)9780674034396(EXLCZ)99100000000080551620011231d2002 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrModern enchantments[electronic resource] the cultural power of secular magic /Simon DuringCambridge, MA Harvard University Press20021 online resource (352 p. ) illOriginally published: 2002.0-674-00607-0 0-674-01371-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-326) and index.Acknowledgments 1. Magic History: An Introduction 2. Enchantment and Loss: Theorizing Secular Magic 3. Egg-Bag Tricks and Electricity: The Founding of Modern Commercial Conjuring 4. Magic's Moment: The Illusion Business 5. From Magic to Film 6. Magic and Literature 7. Magic Places: The Lyceum and the Great Room, Spring Gardens 8. Spiritualism and the Birth of Optical Technologies Notes IndexMagic, Simon During suggests, has helped shape modern culture. Devoted to this deceptively simple proposition, this work gets at the aesthetic questions at the very heart of the study of culture.Magic, Simon During suggests, has helped shape modern culture. Devoted to this deceptively simple proposition, During's superlative work, written over the course of a decade, gets at the aesthetic questions at the very heart of the study of culture. How can the most ordinary arts--and by "magic," During means not the supernatural, but the special effects and conjurings of magic shows--affect people? Modern Enchantments takes us deeply into the history and workings of modern secular magic, from the legerdemain of Isaac Fawkes in 1720, to the return of real magic in nineteenth-century spiritualism, to the role of magic in the emergence of the cinema. Through the course of this history, During shows how magic performances have drawn together heterogeneous audiences, contributed to the molding of cultural hierarchies, and extended cultural technologies and media at key moments, sometimes introducing spectators into rationality and helping to disseminate skepticism and publicize scientific innovation. In a more revealing argument still, Modern Enchantments shows that magic entertainments have increased the sway of fictions in our culture and helped define modern society's image of itself.Magic tricksHistoryMagiciansHistoryElectronic books.Magic tricksHistory.MagiciansHistory.793.8During Simon1950-251364MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454864003321Modern enchantments2474597UNINA